Greek origins
From Athens' ancestors
Greek origins refers to words, concepts, or practices that trace back to ancient Greece or the Greek language.
The phrase appears most often in etymology: The word "democracy" has Greek origins.
It can also describe cultural elements: The Olympic Games have Greek origins.
Sometimes shortened to from the Greek or from Greek.
- Alexander the GreatMacedonian empire builder
- AristotleGreek founder of formal logic
- loanwordImported vocabulary item
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
- ArchimedesGreek polymath, physicist
etymology · prefix · Zeus · Delphi · democracy · Athena · Socrates · Hippocratic oath · suffix · polis · Greek mythology · Mount Olympus · alphabet · Parthenon · Pythagoras · golden ratio · geometry · oracle
- namesgiven names, first names, names, surnames, first name
- Ancient GreeksSocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Pericles