Greek vocabulary
Ancient language terms
Greek vocabulary refers to the words and terms from the Greek language, particularly those that have entered English through science, medicine, philosophy, and religion.
English borrows heavily from Greek: democracy, philosophy, telephone, biology.
Someone studying Greek vocabulary might be learning the language itself or examining Greek roots to understand English words like pneumonia or psychology.
- logosBrand identification symbols
- know thyselfImperative for introspection
- OlympusSacred Greek mountain
- geometryScience of spatial relationships
- ethosCollective moral character
golden mean · pneuma · democracy · astronomy · Zeus · polis · body politic · sophia · philosophy · Athena · chronos · arete · carpe diem · alpha and omega · archetype · Apollo · rhetoric · theater
Greek vocabularyeveryday words