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Eureka! (heureka!), Greek
I have found it!

Said to be the exclamation of Archimedes (Greek-Sicilian mathematician , physicist, and inventor, c. 287-212 B.C.) who, while bathing, discovered how to determine the gold content of a crown made for King Hiero II of Syracuse. His discovery of the principle of buoyancy while bathing, helped him in determining the content of the gold and base metal in Hiero's crown. This experiment led to the discovery of the law of specific gravity.

Eureka is the motto of the state of California; based on the theory that gold miners yelled this out when gold was first discoverd there. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. There is a city in Northern California named Eureka. Incidentally, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California and President of the United States, attended Eureka College—in Eureka, Illinois.

So, since the 16th century, the term has been used as an exulting (joyous) cry of discovery!

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(Greek: mist, dimness, darkness)
(Greek: highest point; prime, best time)
(Greek: remedy, cure)
(Greek: grasshopper, grasshoppers; locust, locusts; cricket, crickets)
(Greek: stormy wind, whirlwind; from Greek mythology, Aëllo, a harpy; whose name literally means, "Stormswift")
(Greek: air, mist, wind)
(Greek: good)
(Greek: usually a suffix meaning: lead, leading, leading forth, guide, guiding; bring, take; promoting, stimulating)
(Greek: assembly, market place; open space, public speaking; originally, "to unite")
(Greek: wild grass; grass)
(Greek: sleeplessness, wakefulness; originally, it meant "sleeping in the field")
(Greek: street)
(Greek: spear, spear point)
(Greek: beach, seashore; and also a cliff)
(Greek: aitios, causing, to cause, causation)
(Greek: rooster, cock; sometimes, also chicken)
(Greek: true; nothing concealed; real [from a-, "no, nothing" and letho-, "forgetfullness, oblivion"])
(Greek: flour)
(Greek: defend, protect, ward off, keep off)
(Greek: pain)
(Greek: sausage)
(Greek: one another, of one another; literally, "the other"; reciprocally; in mutual relation)
(Greek: barly, pearl barley, groats; originally, "white grain")
(Greek: forest, woods, a woodland)
(Greek: sand [dust])
(Greek: wagon, vehicle)
(Greek: dull, dullness, dim, dimness, blunt; stupid)
(Greek: sand; used primarily in botany and zoology)
(Greek: "bowl", or "lamb")
(Greek: change, alteration; return, exchange)
(Greek: vine)
(Greek: around, about, both, on both sides of, both kinds)
(Greek (amphoreus > Latin (amphora): bottle, jar; a vessel with two handles or ears, a pitcher)
(Greek: scratch, itch)
(Greek: starch)
(Greek: no muscle)
(Greek: ankos: a bend or hollow, an angle; a valley; also a crag)
(Greek: air, wind)
(Greek: messenger, divine messenger)
(Greek: unequal; by extension: unsymmetrical, uneven; dissimilar, unlike)
(Greek: stiff, unmovable; adhesion; by extension, "bent, hooked, crooked, curved, looped")
(Greek: irregular, uneven; abnormal)
(Greek: one part for another)
(Greek: flower, flowers; blossom, blossoms; that which buds or sprouts)
(Greek: coal, charcoal, carbuncle; carbon-dioxide)
(Greek: cave, cavern; in medicine, of or pertaining to a [bodily] cavity or sinus; a term in anatomical nomenclature, especially to designate a cavity or chamber within a bone)
(Greek: lower extremity of the windpipe; by extension, extremity of the heart, the great artery)
(Greek: deceit, fraud; deceitful, deceptive, illusory, wily)
(Greek: boundless, infinite)
(Greek: aphairesis, withdrawal, separation, removal and aphairein, "to take away")
(Greek: foam, froth)
(Greek: undress, disrobe; take off, strip, lay bare; shed, molt)
(Greek: spider; the arachnoidea; when used in medicine this Greek element refers to a membrane, veins, or any web-like structure in the body)
(Greek: govern, rule; ruler, chief [first in position])
(Greek: original [first in time], beginning, first cause, origin, ancient, primitive, from the beginning; most basic)
(Greek: of the bear, bear [the animal]; or the north, northern)
(Greek: thin, slight, weak; small space)
(Greek: of, or pertaining to "god of war", Ares or Mars, used primarily in astronomy)
(Greek: silver)
(Greek: best)
(Greek: number)
(Greek: a suffix; little, small)
(Greek: male)
(Greek: joint, pertaining to the joints or connecting bone structures)
(Greek: even, matching; even number)
(Greek: worm; maw-worm; intestinal worm)
(Greek: little bag, bag; bladder, pouch; bladder like, sac like; from leather bag, wine skin)
(Greek: a suffix indicating an enzyme)
(Greek: star, stars)
(Greek: without strength)
(Greek: anklebone, talus ball of ankle joint; dice, die [the Greeks made these from ankle bones])
(Greek: lightning; the Greek verb strapto means "to hurl")
(Greek: star, stars, star shaped; also pertaining to outer space)
(Greek: disorder, without order)
(Greek: imperfect, incomplete)
(Greek: collective)
(Greek: Atlas, atlas; Atlant[os])
(Greek: increase, growth)
(Greek: a flutist, musician)
(Greek: austeros, harsh, rough, bitter > Latin: dry, harsh, sour, tart)
(Greek: without life; nitrogen)
(Greek: indicates the presence of nitrogen in chemistry)
(Greek: rod-shaped micro-organism; used in biomedical terminology)
(Greek: acorn)
(Greek: to immerse or to dip into water)
(Greek: a step or degree; rank; by steps)
(Greek: deep, depth)
(Greek: frog)
(Greek: needle)
(Greek: deep, depth; the fauna and flora of the bottom of the sea; sea bottom; depth [by extension, this element includes lake, river, and stream bottoms])
(Greek: B, β; second letter of the Greek alphabet and the second object in any order of arrangement or classification)
(Greek: book, books)
(Greek: pit, pitted; ditch; grooved)
(Greek: cluster, cluster of grapes, clusterlike, grapes)
(Greek: cow, ox)
(Greek: turning like oxen in plowing; alternate lines in opposite directions; zig-zag procedure)
(Greek: arm [especially the upper arm from the shoulder to the elbow])
(Greek: slow, slowness; delayed, tardy; a prefix used in the sense of being "abnormally slow")
(Greek: gills)
(Greek: fetus; infant; a combining form denoting relationship to the embryo, fetus, or newborn infant)
(Greek: thunder)
(Greek: grinding or gnashing the teeth; rubbing the teeth together)
(Greek: beer)
(Greek: rural, rustic, pastoral)
(Greek: will)
(Greek: flax)
(Latin: the wand of a herald, herald's staff; specifically, the wand of Hermes [Greek] and Mercury [Latin])
(Month and Day Names)
(Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud")
(Greek: covered, cover; hide, hidden; conceal, concealed)
(Greek: kamptos, bent)
(Greek: crooked, bent)
(Greek: smoke; vapor; sooty [extended meaning is carbon dioxide])
(Greek: cancer ["crab"])
(Greek: heart, pertaining to the heart)
(Greek: karphos, straw, dry stock, bit, or scrap; from karphein, to wither, to wrinkle, to dry)
(Greek: fruit [or similar reproductive result]; to cut, to pluck)
(Greek: wrist [literally, "that which turns"])
(Greek: katta to Late Latin: cattus)
(Greek: to purge, to purify, or to cleanse; purification; cleansing)
(Greek: mirror; from kat-[a], "against, back" plus op-[tos], "seen" plus the noun-forming suffix -tron)
(Greek: a suffix; hernia, swelling)
(Greek: hollow; abdomen; hernia; used primarily in the sense of concave; pertaining to a bodily cavity)
(Greek: tumor, hernia)
(Greek: a suffix; new, denotes certain "recent" eons when naming geological periods)
(Greek: empty; removal [medical discharge or evacuation])
(Greek: horn, horny tissue; cornea)
(Greek: thunderbolt, thunder, lightning [literally, "smasher, crusher"])
(Greek: tail)
(Greek: wax, waxy)
(Greek: [from keros, beeswax, wax] formed of wax)
(Greek: a whale, or whales and other whale-like creatures)
(Greek: spine, bristle; long, flowing hair])
(Greek: copper; brass)
(Greek: gravel, pebbles, rubble)
(Greek: on the ground, low; by extension, "dwarf-like")
(Latin: character; Greek: kharakter; originally, "a distinctive mark, a sign, or impression"; then it came to mean "an aggregate of distinctive qualities")
(Greek: joy, delight, gladness)
(Greek: lip, lips; edge or brim)
(Greek: kheima, winter, frost, winter weather, winter-flowing; by extension, cold, freezing)
(Greek: hand; pertaining to the hand or hands)
(Greek: claw, pincer, hoof, talon)
(Greek: chemical element; antimonos, opposed to solitude; symbol Sb is from Latin stibium [powdered antimony]; some say antimony means, “a metal seldom found alone”; metal)
(Greek: argus, neutral, inactive, idle, inert; gas)
(Greek: bromos, a stench; because of the odor [stench] from its vapors; liquid nonmetal)
(Greek: chloros, grass-green; a reference to the color of the gas which tends to be greenish-yellow; gas)
(Greek: hydor, "water", plus gen, "born", "forming"; gas)
(Greek: iodes, "violet"; from the color of its vapor; nonmetal)
(Greek: kryptos, "hidden"; gas)
(Greek: neo, "new" or the "new one"; gas)
(Greek: oxys, "sharp", plus gen, "forming"; from the incorrect belief that oxygen forms acids; gas)
(Greek: phosphoros, "light bringer", "morning star"; glows brightly because of rapid oxidation; nonmetal)
(Greek: prasios, "green", plus didymos, "twin" [with the element neodymium] because of a green line in its spectrum; rare earth)
(Greek: twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet; Χ, χ)
(Greek: crossed, laid crosswise)
(Greek: thousand, thousands; thousandth, thousandths,)
(Greek: snow, like snow)
(Greek: Cheiron > Latin, Chiron; a centaur famous for his knowledge of plants)
(Greek: bat, bats; flying mammals with wings: cheir, "hand" + pteron, "wing")
(Greek: tunic, covering; a reference to the chemical constituent of crab and lobster shells)
(Greek: cloak, mantle; envelope)
(Greek: debris, mud, dirt)
(Greek: Chloris, goddess; the color green, yellow-green, or light green)
(Greek: funnel; a combining form denoting a relationship to a funnel or to a funnel-like structure)
(Greek: bile, gall plus angio-, vessel)
(Greek: disease in which the bodily humors [biles] are subject to violent discharge; characterized by severe vomiting and diarrhea)
(Greek: bile, gall)
(Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage)
(Greek: a suffix: to spread, to disperse; to move, to go; to withdraw, to advance; a means or agency for distribution)
(Greek: dance; involuntary movements; spasm; in medicine, it is used to reveal a nervous disorder either of organic origin or from an infection)
(Greek: skin, membrane, leather; protective fetal membrane)
(Greek: place, space, land; country, district)
(Greek: acquisition of wealth by making money; transacting business to gain wealth; efforts made to possess goods and money; striving to be rich)
(Greek: time, times; sequence of times)
(Greek: the color gold, golden, golden yellow)
(Greek: earth, of the earth, soil, dirt)
(Greek: Lord's house)
(Greek (khylos) > Latin (chylus): juice, to pour; pertaining to chyle, the milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat that is a product of the digestive process)
(Greek: juice, liquid; the semifluid material resulting from the partial digestion of food)
(Greek: uvula; the small piece of soft tissue that can be seen dangling down from the soft palate over the back of the tongue)
(Greek: break, break in pieces; broken, broken in pieces, crush; bend)
(Greek: bar for closing a door; to shut, to close)
(Greek: lot, allotment, inheritance)
(Greek: inclination, slope; the [supposed] slope of the earth from the equator towards the poles; hence, the latitudinal zone of the earth and prevailing weather in a given zone)
(Greek: bed; slope, slant; to lean, leaning; an ecological term; in the sense of a slope or gradient)
(Greek: twig; later, in modern usage: repetition, carbon copy, same)
(Greek: to wash; washing)
(Greek: the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle)
(Greek: scratch, tickle, itch, sting)
(Greek: nettle; a relationship to a nettle or nettle-like structure; nettle rash)
(Greek: bacteria; literally, a "berry, kernel")
(Greek: cuckoo; the end of the vertebral column in man and in some apes; the rudiment of a tail)
(Greek: spiral shell, snail with a spiral shell; pertaining to the cochlea, the spiral tube in the inner ear)
(Greek: koimeterion, sleeping-room, burial-place; grave, grave yard; final resting place)
(Greek: glue)
(Greek: glue; used in the sense of "pertaining to a colloid, a gelatinous [gluelike] substance in which particle matter is suspended")
(Greek: kolo- > Latin: colo-, colon or large intestine [that part which extends from the cecum to the rectum])
(Greek: womb, fold; vagina; from "bosom, lap, hollow")
(Greek: from Modern Latin which came from Greek koma, komatos, "deep sleep")
(Greek: knuckle, knuckle-like knob, knob)
(Greek: feces, dung, excrement; filth, dirt)
(Greek: crowlike; used in the specialized sense of "pertaining to, or connected to the coracoid, the bony process that forms part of the scapular arch [and is so named because its shape resembles that of a crow's beak"])
(Greek: pupil of the eye; kore, literally, "girl" to mean both "doll" and "pupil of the eye")
(Greek: korizesthai, "to caress"; via Late Latin: corisma)
(Greek: cup, any cup-shaped hollow; a seed leaf)
(Greek: a suffix; to govern, to rule; government, strength, power, might, authority)
(Greek: to hang, hang up; hung, hung up; suspend, suspended, suspender)
(Greek: well head, spring, fountain, mineral spring)
(Greek: ram)
(Greek: pulse beat)
(Greek: cold, frost, chill; freezing)
(Greek: cold, very cold, freezing; used to describe the effects of low temperatures or activities carried on at a very low temperature)
(Greek: crystal, ice, freeze, congeal, frost; icelike, transparent; [especially in reference to a mineral or glass])
(Greek: comb, rake; comblike, comb-shaped)
(Greek: the color blue, dark blue)
(Greek: cup, a goblet, a cup for measuring, or drawing wine out of a bowl)
(Greek: steersman, pilot, helmsman; to steer, guide, govern, governor; computer-mediated electronic communications)
(Greek: around, round, circle, circular)
(Greek: to be pregnant; pregnancy)
(Greek: wave; sprout)
(Greek: dog; like a dog)
(Greek: embryo, fetus; pertaining to pregnancy or to a fetus)
(Greek: Kypris, a name for Venus or Aphrodite; a lewd or licentious woman)
(Greek: bent, curved)
(Greek: Kytheria; another name for Venus or Aphrodite)
(Greek: thick, shaggy, hairy, dense)
(Greek: ten; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: dinner; dining)
(Greek: to harm, to hurt, to injure, to damage, to destroy; destroyer; harmful)
(Greek: visible, clear, clearly seen; obvious)
(Greek: writing-tablet)
(Greek: triangular; fourth letter; Δ, δ, of the Greek alphabet)
(Greek: devil, demon [evil spirit]; an intermediary spirit between gods and men which could be good or evil)
(Greek: duty, that which is binding; obligation; necessity)
(Greek: neck)
(Greek: to bind, binding, fusing; surgical fixation)
(Greek: band, bond; ligament)
(Greek: two; second [in a series])
(Greek: through, thoroughly; across; entirely, utterly)
(Greek: devil, demon [literally, "to throw across;" then, "to attack, to slander"])
(Greek: net, netlike)
(Greek: didaktikos, skilled at teaching, teach; teacher)
(Greek: twin; testicle)
(Greek: a judge; right, order, law, manner; justice)
(Greek: fearful, frightful; terrible, powerful)
(Greek: double; two-fold)
(Greek: thirst, thirsty [toward "drink"])
(Greek: twelve)
(Greek: slave, servile, slavish; servitude; serving)
(Greek: believe, belief; that which is thought to be true by someone who has the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and to enforce his or her opinions, doctrines, praise, or beliefs)
(Greek: sickle)
(Greek: running, course; race, racecourse)
(Greek: dew)
(Greek: oak tree; by extension, "tree")
(Greek: power, strength, force, mightiness)
(Greek: called out; church)
(Greek: away from home)
(Greek: viper)
(Greek: spiny, prickly; sea urchin; hedgehog; [spiny] seed husk)
(Greek: sound, noise; especially a returned sound; repetition, imitation)
(Greek: dilatation, dilation, expansion, extension, or distension of an organ)
(Greek: ektasis; dilated, expanded, distended, extension +)
(Greek: outside, external, beyond)
(Greek: soil)
(Greek: swell, swelling)
(Greek: an entry)
(Greek: mirror)
(Greek: to drive, strike, beat out; general application is "beaten metal, metal plate")
(Greek: oil, olive oil)
(Greek: free, freedom)
(Greek: vomit; barf; puke; regurgitate, "throw up")
(Greek: opposite, opposing, over against; [en- + anti])
(Greek: brain; that which is inside the head)
(Greek: within, inside, into, in, on, inner)
(Greek: nine)
(Greek: intestine, gut)
(Greek: insect, bug; literally, "cut up, cut in pieces"; an insect because it appears to be segmented)
(Greek: dawn [east], daybreak; early; primarily used to signify, "early, primeval")
(Greek: daybreak, dawn, red of the dawn sky; primarily used in naming chemical compounds, especially pertaining to red stain or dye)
(Greek: again; occurring in some rhetorical terms)
(Greek: land; mainland; continent)
(Greek: above, over, on, upon; besides; in addition to; toward; among)
(Greek: denotes the vulva or region of the pubes)
(Greek: knowledge, know; understand; believe)
(Greek: the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ε, ε)
(Greek: lonely, solitary; hermit; desert)
(Greek: work)
(Greek: the color red, ruddy; blushing)
(Greek: last, furthest, remotest, outermost)
(Greek: inward, into; within)
(Greek: gullet, throat [passage from the mouth to the stomach], that which carries food; the path along which food travels from the mouth to the stomach)
(Greek: the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet; Η, η)
(Greek: strainer, sieve)
(Greek: custom, habit; character, manners; usage)
(Greek: upper air, purer air [alcohol and sufuric acid]; in scientific terminology, "volatile, clean-smelling, euphoria-producing liquid composed of alcohol and sufuric acid")
(Greek: cause, causation, originating; that which causes or originates something)
(Greek: truth, true meaning, real [the root meaning, true meaning or literal meaning of a word])
(Greek: "I have found!" or making discoveries)
(Greek: wide, broad)
(Greek: from hexa-, "six"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: phorbe, fodder, from pherbein, to graze; by extension: fodder, food; any herb other than grass, a broadleaf herb; a weed)
(Greek: marriage, union; wedding; pertaining to sexual union)
(Greek: laugh, laughter, laughing)
(Greek: chin, jaw, cheek)
(Greek: genein, "to produce"; all the genetic information possessed by any organism)
(Greek: bridge)
(Greek: "giant"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: giant; giantlike; very large, big, huge)
(Greek: tongue; language, speech)
(Greek: tongue; by extension, "speech, language")
(Greek: sweet, sweetness)
(Greek: buttock, butt, rump; muscles of the buttocks; sometimes, it means "round")
(Greek: sweet; used in the specialized sense of "sweet, syrupy liquid")
(Greek: sweet, sugar)
(Greek: carve, carving, engraving; to hollow out; by extension, a form of writing)
(Greek: corner, bend, angle)
(Greek > Latin: generation, genesis, origination; creation [Greek: gonos, -gonia > Latin: -gonia, "that which is begotten, offspring"])
(Greek: knee)
(Greek: unclothed, bare, unclad, disrobed, undressed; naked, nude)
(Greek: turning, spinning, whirling, bend, circular motion; originally, "circle, curved, ring")
(Greek: the lower world [originally, invisible, to make invisible])
(Greek: sacred, holy; religious)
(Greek: something that is wrong; sin, evil behavior; wickedness in living; misconduct; that part of theology that deals with sin or immoral deeds)
(Greek: simple, simply; single, one, once)
(Greek: touch, touching, fasten, contact, seizure; binding, attaching)
(Greek: seventh)
(Greek: a hundred; many; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: pleasure, joy, and being happy)
(Greek: ulcer, sore)
(Greek: spiral, coil; twisted, bent; spiral-shaped; a coil; by extension, "snail")
(Greek: sun)
(Greek: marsh, marshland)
(Greek: nail, stud, wart, corn)
(Greek: day)
(Greek: half)
(Greek: "blood " plus Latin: "sphere, ball"; oxygen-carrying protein of the red corpuscles)
(Greek: eleven)
(Greek: one; used as a prefix)
(Greek: seven; normally used as a prefix)
(Greek: creeping thing, reptile; snake)
(Greek: six; a number used as a prefix)
(Greek: sweat, sweating, perspire, perspiration; sweat gland)
(Greek: sacred, holy; religious)
(Greek: horse)
(Greek: web, cloth, tissue)
(Greek: way, a going, a traveling; road, path)
(Greek: whole, entire, complete)
(Greek: even, level, smooth; used in the sense of "flat" or "plane")
(Greek: same, like, resembling, sharing in common, similar, equal)
(Greek: sermon; meeting, assembly)
(Greek: from ancient Greek hormáein [hormein], "to set in motion, impel, urge on")
(Greek: to rouse or to set in motion)
(Greek: wanton violence, riotousness, insolence; outrage; arrogance)
(Greek: glass, glassy; transparent; pertaining to the vitreous humor or surrounding membrane)
(Greek: water)
(Greek: pig; swine)
(Greek: rain, rain fall; heavy shower)
(Greek: health, healthy, healthful, wholesome, sound [in body])
(Greek: moist, moisture, wet, damp)
(Greek: wood, forest, substance, matter; material, materialism)
(Greek: membrane, skin; virginal membrane; hymen originally denoted any membrane)
(Greek: denoting u-shaped [upsilon-shaped]; hyoid bone, literally, "mere" or "simple" y, ypsilon)
(Greek: liable, accountable, responsible)
(Greek: sleep)
(Greek: high, highest, height; on high)
(Greek: shortcoming, deficiency; to be behind, to come late, to lag; later)
(Greek: the womb or uterus; hysteria)
(Greek: track, trace, footprint; pertaining to fossil footprints)
(Greek: fluid [distinct from blood] that flows through the veins of the gods; by extension, "watery part of blood or milk," used in the sense of "thin, serous or sanious fluid, especially from a wound or sore")
(Greek: a suffix; meaning, specialist in, practitioner of)
(Greek: image, likeness; form of a person or object; a sacred, holy, or religious representaion)
(Greek: the number twenty; used as a prefix)
(Greek: jaundice)
(Greek: a suffix used to form the names of families in zoology and biology; descended from, related to)
(Greek: idea, form, appearance; class, species, model; general principle)
(Greek: peculiar, one's own, personal, private; of or pertaining to one's self, distinct, separate, alone)
(Greek: smaller or lesser; little)
(Greek: force, strength; seat of strength; muscle, sinew; fibrous vessel in a muscle)
(Greek: 1. Io, daughter of the river god, Inachus. 2. An arrow; poison, rust)
(Greek: the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet)
(Greek: iris [relating to the eye]; the rainbow; colored circle, colored portion of the eye [originally, "something bent or curved"])
(Greek: hip, hip-joint, hip-bone; haunch)
(Greek: check, stop, keep back, suppress; suppression)
(Greek: termites)
(Greek: narrow passage or ridge; narrow passage or strip [especially of bodily tissue] connecting two larger entities)
(Greek: a suffix; one connected with, inhabitant of; also used to show chemicals, minerals, etc.)
(Greek: straight)
(Greek: the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Κ, κ)
(Greek: nut, walnut; kernel; cell, cell nucleus)
(Greek: to sit; sitting)
(Greek: down, downwards, below, underneath)
(Greek: worry, anxiety, care, grief, trouble, to be concerned for; protector, guardian, most worthy of care)
(Greek: containing, or derived from keratin, a highly insoluble scleroprotein that is the main constituent of horny tissues, the nails, and the organic matrix of tooth enamel; derived from Greek kera[s], kerat[os], "horn")
(Greek: one thousand; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements and representing 103 or 1 000)
(Greek: hinder, inhibiting, to cut short, stop)
(Greek: weariness, fatigue, exhaustion)
(Greek: wave, sprout; swollen)
(Greek: bent; humped, humpbacked)
(Greek: vegetable, of vegetables)
(Greek: the eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet; Λ, λ)
(Greek: bright, clear)
(Greek: the soft part of the body between the ribs and the hip, flank, loin; denotes the flank or loins and the abdominal wall or a part of the abdomen)
(Greek: fat > Latin: lardum bacon)
(Greek: a drain, passage; sewer)
(Greek: yolk of an egg; a reference to the ovum)
(Greek: smooth)
(Greek: sheath, husk)
(Greek: moths, butterflies; a combination of lepido-, "flake" or "scale" and ptero, "wing")
(Greek: a suffix; a violent attack, a seizing)
(Greek: thin, small, fine, delicate, mild; from "peeled, husked"; used primarily in the sense of "abnormally thin, narrow, slender, or delicate")
(Greek: word or words, vocabulary; a saying, a phrase; speaking, speech)
(Greek: lake, marshy lake, pool, marsh)
(Greek: hunger, appetite)
(Greek, elleipsis, elleipo, elleipein; Latin, ellipsis: abandon, to leave [behind]; fail; lack, lacking; be wanting)
(Greek: smooth, polished)
(Greek: childbirth; vaginal discharge following childbirth)
(Greek: thicket, bush)
(Greek: ridge; crest, tuft; by extension, hill top)
(Greek: bath, bathing)
(Greek: slanting, oblique)
(Greek: wolf, wolves)
(Greek: shadow, shadowy; shade, darkness; twilight; gloomy)
(Greek: water, yellowish fluid; connected with, or containing, lymph, a transparent fluid that is derived from body tissue and conveyed to the bloodstream by the lymphatic vessels)
(Greek: grief; melancholia)
(Greek: madness, fury, rage, frenzy; relationship to rabies)
(Greek: large, great; long [in extent or duration]; enlarged, or elongated, long [in length]; abnormally large)
(Greek: Magnesian [stone]; Magnesia having been a mineral-rich region of Thessaly)
(Greek: pertaining to midwifery; obstetric; serving to elicit ideas [said of the Socratic method of teaching])
(Greek: soft, softness; abnormal softening, soft-bodied)
(Greek: sparse, thin, rare; slack, loose; by extension, "gas, vapor")
(Mars [Greek: Ares], Roman god of war; fourth planet from the sun)
(Greek: pouch, purse)
(Greek: (martus, martur-); Late Greek: (martur); Late Ecclesiastical Latin (martyr), Old English (martyr), Middle English (martir); witness)
(Greek: armpit)
(Latin: to chew; Greek: to gnash, grind, or rub the upper and lower teeth together)
(Greek: whip, flog, scourge)
(Greek: breast; the front of the human chest and either of two soft rounded organs on each side of the chest in women and men; however, with women the organs are more prominent and produce milk after childbirth; also, a milk-producing gland in mammals that corresponds to the human breast)
(Greek: breast)
(Greek: winding; from a winding river; by extension, curving, walking around slowly, drifting, wandering, roaming, going around aimlessly)
(Greek: large, great, big, powerful)
(Greek: large, big, very big)
(Greek: the color black; dark)
(Greek: honeybee, honeybees; bee, bees)
(Greek: apple; by extension, "cheek")
(Greek: membranes enveloping the brain and spinal cord)
(Greek: month; moon; menses (plural), mensis (singular), "month")
(Greek: cord, line, string)
(Greek: mineral, metal)
(Greek: a combining form occurring in the names of chemical compounds in which the methyl group is present; alcohol, wine)
(Greek: forehead)
(Greek: mother [family member])
(Greek: uterus, womb)
(Greek: pollution, stain, contamination; to pollute, to defile, to corrupt)
(Greek: small, tiny; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: mix, mixed; thrown together, blended)
(Greek: smaller, less, fewer)
(Greek: thread)
(Greek: memory, to remember; recollection of something or someone; awareness, consciousness of the present and the past)
(Greek: with difficulty, difficult; with toil and pain)
(Greek: a feeble minded person; foolish; dull)
(Greek: the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet; Μ, μ)
(Greek: mousike [techne] > Latin: musica, music; originally an art of the Muses)
(Greek: mouse, mice)
(Greek: bone marrow; the spinal cord and medulla oblongata; the myelin sheath of nerve fibers)
(Greek: a fly)
(Greek: muscle; said to be from a Greek word meaning "mouse")
(Greek: ten thousand; very numerous, countless)
(Greek [Murmidones] > Latin: [Myrmidones, Myrmidons])
(Greek: unguent, perfume)
(Greek: uncleanness of body or mind; filth; defilement; anything disgusting)
(Greek: slime, mucus; used often in biomedical nomenclature)
(Greek: spring water, fountain)
(Greek: dwarf, dwarfish; pygmy; "little old man;" very small or tiny; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: numbness, dullness; sleep, stupor, torpor; benumb, deaden)
(Greek: nastos, pressed close, crammed full; firm, solid)
(Greek: ship; sailor; navigation)
(Greek: new, recent, current, young)
(Greek: swimming)
(Greek: thread, that which is spun; pertaining to a thread-like structure used in many scientific terms)
(Greek: wooded pasture, glade; grove; woods, forest)
(Greek: soberness, sober; drink no wine)
(Greek: cloud, clouds, cloudiness)
(Greek: nephros; kidney, kidneys)
(Greek: infant)
(Greek: island)
(Greek: goddess of victory in Greek mythology; literally, victory)
(Greek: snow, snowy, wintry)
(Greek: a meadow; a pasture; an abode; a place for eating; by extension, "distribution of an acute, necrotizing ulcerative process involving mucous membranes of the mouth or genitalia")
(Greek, nomas, nomados, "pasturing, roaming about for pasture" > Latin , nomas, nomdis: wander, moving around for pasture or grazing for herds or flocks)
(Greek: law, order, arrangement, systematized knowledge of [something]; usage)
(Greek: mind, thought; intellect)
(Greek: hospital, infirmary; place for the treatment of diseases)
(Greek: return home)
(Greek: noteros, moist, moisture, damp, dampness, wet)
(Greek: the back)
(Greek: mind, intellect; the reason; common sense)
(Greek: the thirteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ν, ν)
(Greek: night; a relationship to darkness, dark)
(Greek: young bride; woman of marriageable age)
(Greek: mob [people])
(Greek: the color yellow; pale, wan, or sallow)
(Greek: any elevation, bank, hill, mound)
(Greek: wine, fermented grape juice)
(Greek: a strong desire, orgasm; the sting of a gadfly, anything that drives one mad)
(Greek: house, dwelling, home)
(Greek: worship; excessively, fanatically devoted to someone or something; “service paid to the gods”)
(Greek: tumor, morbid growth; to swell, bulge; mass, group)
(Greek: the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet; Ω, ω; the ending, the last of anything)
(Greek: the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet)
(Greek: eye)
(Greek: raw, unripe)
(Greek: navel, umbilicus; pertaining to the navel or to the umbilicus)
(Greek: sell, for sale; by extension, buy, purchase, pay for, invest money into)
(Greek: a being, individual; being, existence)
(Greek: claw, nail; fingernails, toenails)
(Greek: ovary, egg [literally, "egg-carrier"; extended to mean ovary])
(Greek: snake, snakelike, serpent)
(Greek: backward; behind, at the back, after, posterior)
(Greek: juice)
(Greek: late, later)
(Greek: boiled meat; to buy food; to purchase provisions; shopping)
(Greek: dance, pertaining to dancing)
(Greek: appetite [hunger]; to stretch out for; to desire)
(Greek: open woodland, meadow, field)
(Greek: an organized structure; pertaining to a specific bodily part with a specific function or set of functions; instrument, tool, implement)
(Greek: whey, serum)
(Greek: fossil, mineral; dug, dig; literally "thing dug")
(Greek: scrotum; a combining form denoting relationship to the scrotum or the pouch of skin which contains the testes, epididymides, and lower portions of the spermatic cords)
(Greek: impulse, thrust, push, impel)
(Greek: to smell; pertaining to odor or to the sense of smell)
(Greek: loin)
(Greek: bone)
(Greek: oyster; creatures having or characterized by a type of hard shell)
(Greek: ear; relationship to the ear)
(Greek: to smell; stink; generally used in a bad sense)
(Greek: thick, dense; large, massive)
(Greek: cold, frost, freezing; fixed or hardened; united)
(Greek: a "peak", but used by ecologists in the restricted sense of "foothill")
(Greek: something fixed or fastened together; a suffix that denotes conjoined twins, the first element of a word denotes the parts fused)
(Greek: original, ancient, primitive, old)
(Greek: shake, vibration)
(Greek: pollen, spores)
(Greek: all, every, entire; always)
(Greek: pancreas [pan, "all" plus kreas, "flesh"; the idea apparently being that the pancreas is an organ composed entirely of glandular flesh])
(Greek: by the side of, beside, past, beyond; contrary, wrong, irregular, abnormal)
(Greek: same, equal, equality, equal value)
(Greek: virgin, maiden, young girl)
(Greek: child, boy; infant)
(Greek: pedon, ground, soil, earth)
(Greek: spring, fountain, mineral spring)
(Greek: mud, earth, clay)
(Greek: shield; small-light shield)
(Greek: pemphix, "blister"; blistering skin diseases or a swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation; a bump or small swelling on or beneath the skin)
(Greek: five; a number used as a prefix)
(Greek: mother-in-law; father-in-law)
(Greek: digestion, able to digest; cook; from "to cook, boil, digest")
(Greek: space between the scrotum or mons veneris and the anus)
(Greek: extraordinary; superfluous, redundant; odd, odd-numbered)
(Greek: pigeon, dove)
(Greek: maimed, crippled; deformed, malformed)
(Greek: derived from penta-, "five"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: leaf; from the adjective petalos, "flat, spread out")
(Greek: in botany, a suffix combining form meaning, "having a certain number or a certain shape of petals")
(Greek: a suffix; fixing [of a specified part]; attaching to, a fastening)
(Greek: lentil [bean]; lens of the eye)
(Greek: dusky; literally, having the color of the twilight sky)
(Greek: baldheaded, bald; smooth)
(Greek: to show; to make visible, to manifest, to open)
(Greek: medical drug, medicine; poison)
(Greek: pharynx [the alimentary canal between the palate and the esophagus]; part of the neck or throat)
(Greek: talk, speak, say)
(Greek: cork, bark; cork tree; inner bark of trees)
(Greek: speak, talk; speech)
(Greek: light, splendor, luster, sunlight, daylight)
(Greek: to show, to appear, or to display; making evident; literally, "to come to light" or "to bring to light")
(Greek: bear or carry; support; go)
(Greek: the twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet; Φ, φ)
(Greek: kiss, a kiss; kissing)
(Greek: vein, blood vessel; from the verb, phlein, "to flow")
(Greek: fire, flame; inflammation)
(Greek: (classic and modern) phono, phonos; slaughter, kill, murder, homicide)
(Greek: light)
(Greek: fence, wall off, stop up; obstruction)
(Greek: a well, a tank, a reservoir; ground water)
(Greek: mind, brain; the midriff or the diaphragm; mental disorder)
(Greek: phreatia, a well, a reservoir, a tank; a cistern, a pit)
(Greek: thought, care, attention; think, thinking, contemplation)
(Greek: toad)
(Greek: decay, waste away, waning; loss, diminution)
(Greek: alga, algae; seaweed)
(Greek: guard, protect, preserve)
(Greek: leaf, leaves)
(Greek: tribe, race; class; clan)
(Greek: the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Π, π)
(Greek: bitter, sharp, pungent)
(Greek: to press; pressure; to squeeze)
(Greek: [soft] fat)
(Greek: a combining form confused between three Greek roots and may mean "hunger", "dirt", or "drink"; and there is one Latin form referring to the "pine tree")
(Greek: fat)
(Greek: sideways, slanting, sloping; oblique)
(Greek: passively drifting, wandering, or roaming)
(Greek: passively drifting, wandering, or roaming; planet or planets)
(Greek: broad, wide; flat, level)
(Greek: stroke, blow, strike; paralysis)
(Greek: more, most; full; excessive; multiple)
(Greek: swim, swimming, swimmer; sail, sailor; float, floating)
(Greek: near; resembling that which is named by the combining root)
(Greek: excess, superabundance, overly full, fullness; increase)
(Greek: side, rib; a thin membrane with two layers that line the chest cavity)
(Greek: to sail, to float; flow)
(Greek: stroke, wound; used in medicine to denote "a condition resulting from a stroke")
(Greek: a fold; folded)
(Greek: wealth, wealthy, rich)
(Greek: wash, a washing; washtub, basin; by extension, irrigate, irrigation)
(Greek: air, wind; breathing)
(Greek: air, wind, breath; presence of air; spirit)
(Greek: lung; breath, breathe)
(Greek: choke, smother, suffocate; prevent breathing)
(Greek: grass, a grassy place; meadow, meadows)
(Greek: beard; referring to a beard or beard-like structures)
(Greek: varied, irregular, mottled; many-colored, spotted)
(Greek: war, warlike, pertaining to war; battle)
(Greek: gray; pertaining to the "gray matter" of the nervous system, brain, and the spinal cord)
(Greek: city; method of government; citizenship, government, administration)
(Greek: frequent, frequently; often, diverse)
(Greek: toil, labor, work hard, fatigue; exertion; also, suffering, pain)
(Greek: how much? how great?)
(Greek: river, stream)
(Greek: old, relationship to old age, elderly, elder; literally, "he that goes first")
(Greek: anus, rectum)
(Greek: forward, further, onward; anterior)
(Greek: face)
(Greek: one who stands before, in front of; refers primarily to the prostate gland [so named because it "stands before" the mouth of the bladder])
(Greek: former, earlier, older)
(Greek: sand)
(Greek: stammering; faltering in speech)
(Greek: the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet; Ψ, ψ)
(Greek: bare, making bare, stripping; smooth, plain; mere, merely)
(Greek [psittakos-] > Latin [psittacinus-]: parrot)
(Greek: itch, mange)
(Greek: cold)
(Greek: sneeze, a sneezing)
(Greek: fern [from pter[on], "feather, wing"])
(Greek: wing)
(Greek: feather [soft], down)
(Greek: a person who crouches; than extended to a beggar, poor; paupers; modernized meanings: street people, homeless, vagrant, living in poverty)
(Greek: spittle, salivia; salivary gland)
(Greek: foot)
(Greek: close, compact, thick, dense; frequent)
(Greek: renal pelvis; especially of the kidney; from "tub, vat, basin, and trough")
(Greek: rump, bottom; rear end; behind part; the posterior or back part of the body)
(Greek: gatekeeper; lower gastric orifice through which the contents of the stomach enter the duodenum)
(Greek: fever, feverish, burning heat, hot)
(Greek: rod; twig, stick, strip, branch; rod-shaped, striated; wand)
(Greek: suture, stitching, joining in a seam)
(Greek: rhetorike tekhne, "the technique or art of public speaking" > Latin: orator; that which is spoken)
(Greek: flux, that which flows; a stream; discharge)
(Greek: cold, frost; shiver)
(Greek: root)
(Greek: the seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ρ, ρ)
(Greek: the color rose [red]; roselike, rose-colored)
(Greek: that which may be turned or spun around; magician's circle; equilateral parallelogram in which only the opposite angles are equal)
(Greek: a snoring; to snore; from beak, snout)
(Greek: filth; dirt)
(Greek: regularly recurring motion; measured motion)
(Greek: wrinkle, wrinkling; folding)
(Greek: tube)
(Greek: rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay; poisoning from bacterial action)
(Greek: decayed, rotten; unsound, weak; humus)
(Greek: boat-shaped [often refers to bones]; shaped like the hull of a boat; dug out like a boat; trench; deep vessel)
(Greek: karabos, "crab, beetle"; Latin: scarabaeus, "beetle"; beetles)
(Greek: dung, feces, excrement, offal, fecal matter, manure, ordure)
(Greek: split, cleft)
(Greek: shade, shadow; ghost)
(Greek: skleros tough, toughen; hard, hardening; dry up)
(Greek: curvature, curved, twisted, crooked, bent)
(Greek: darkness; blindness)
(Greek: to move back and forth; to shake, to move violently; earthquake)
(Greek: moon)
(Greek: signal, signals; sign, signs; mark, marks; symbol, symbols)
(Greek: saliva (suh LIGH vuh); spittle, foam from the mouth; the salivary glands)
(Greek: iron; things made of iron)
(Greek: the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Σ, σ [beginning of word], ς [end of word])
(Greek: sigmoeides, shaped like the letter sigma; pertaining to the sigmoid flexure, the S-shaped bend in the colon; a combining form that usually denotes the sigmoid colon)
(Greek: food; eating; appetite)
(Greek: shade, shadow)
(Greek: channel, pipe)
(Greek: scarce, scarcity; rare, uncommon)
(Greek: wasp, wasps)
(Greek: a wedge; the sphenoid bone, a wedge-shaped bone found at the base of the skull)
(Greek: pulse, pulsation; throbbing)
(Greek, speira > Latin, spira: coil, coiled; twisted, turning)
(Greek: coil; [long flowing] hair; hence, "hair, bristle"; spirochetes, coil-shaped microorganisms)
(Greek: entrails, intestines, viscera [internal organs collectively; especially, those in the abdominal cavity])
(Greek: spleen, "the inward parts;" the elongated accessory lymphatic organ of the vascular [blood] system)
(Greek: ashes; waste materials)
(Greek: spine, spinal column, vertebra)
(Greek: seed, seeding; a sowing; a crop; seedtime)
(Greek: contraction; to gather, to constrict)
(Greek: bunch of grapes, uvula [that which resembles a grape hanging from a stock]; staphylococci, grape-shaped bacteria occurring in irregular clusters)
(Greek: upright stake; hence, "rood, cross"; cross-shaped, crosslike, crossed)
(Greek: a trickling; oozing; to drip, dripping; denoting a flow of some kind, or from some source)
(Greek: fat; suet, tallow)
(Greek: covering, covered, to cover; roof; by extension, secret, secret writing, applied to a secret code, codes, or ciphers that are hidden)
(Greek: an inscribed stone slab; a block of stone, gravestone; a column, a pillar [also a reference to certain plant structures])
(Greek: narrow, contracted; short)
(Greek: Greek herald in the Trojan war [Greek mythology]; powerful voice [literally, "groaner, roarer"])
(Greek: solid, firm, hard; three-dimensional)
(Greek: chest, breast, sternum, the breast bone)
(Greek: chest, breast)
(Greek: line, row)
(Greek: to aim at, to guess, to conjecture; to aim, to target, to mark)
(Greek: strabizein > Modern Latin: "to squint"; imperfect focus; eyes deviating inwardly, deviating outwardly, or one eye going to the right and the other eye going to the left)
(Greek: army)
(Greek: to twist, to turn)
(Greek: a twisting, to twist; easily bent or twisted, like a chain)
(Greek: column; pillar; pillarlike implement or structure, especially the styloid process of the temporal bone)
(Greek: astringent [from the verb styphein, "to contract, to be astringent")
(Greek: crocodile; Egyptian name for crocodile)
(Greek: with, together with; also by extension: united; same, similar; at the same time)
(Greek: pipe, tube, cavity, fistula; spine)
(Greek: fast, speed, swift, rapid)
(Greek: burial, grave; tomb; funeral)
(Greek: the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Τ, τ)
(Greek: same)
(Greek: art, skill, craft; techne, art, skill, craft; tekton, "builder")
(Greek: carpenter, builder)
(Greek: end, last; result, completion, perfection, fulfillment)
(Greek: marsh, pool, standing or stagnent water; mud of a pool)
(Greek: to cut, cutting; literally, a piece cut off)
(Greek: tendon, sinew [related to "move in a certain direction, stretch"])
(Greek: "monster, marvel"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: tension, especially a convulsive tension; muscle spasm or tetanus, an infectious disease characterized by muscle spasms)
(Greek: one fourth)
(Greek: four; a number used as a prefix)
(Greek: bush, shrub)
(Greek: wonder, a wondrous thing; miracle, miraculous, magic; something to look at; sight, spectacle)
(Greek: teat, teats, nipple, nipples)
(Greek: feminine, female, females; daughter, daughters)
(Greek (theorein, theoria); Latin (theoria): looking at, contemplation, spectator, speculation; viewing)
(Greek: the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet; Θ, θ; theta symbol, ϑ)
(Greek: touch, a touching)
(Greek: brimstone, sulfur)
(Greek: thorax, chest [part of the body between the neck and the abdomen; "breastplate, breast, chest"])
(Greek: nutrition, nourishment)
(Greek: clot, lump; aggregation of blood factors)
(Greek: pouch, sack)
(Greek: thymos, spirit, soul; courage; breath, mind, emotions)
(Greek: to pluck, tear, pull)
(Greek: standing water, pool, pond, marsh, swamp)
(Greek: childbirth, delivery, a reference to the production of offspring; that which is brought forth)
(Greek: bow, arrow)
(Greek: neck, throat, cervix)
(Greek: windpipe; originally, "rough" artery)
(Greek: rough)
(Greek: tragoidia, a compound of tragos, "goat" and aeidein, "to sing"; goat song)
(Greek: friction, rub, rubbing, grind, wear away; spend, waste time; be busy)
(Greek: triangular; three angles)
(Greek: to crush; to massage, to rub, rubbing, friction, to grind)
(Greek: a gnashing, grating, grinding; lockjaw)
(Greek: that which is round[ed]; a wheel, a disk)
(Greek: food, nutrition, nourishment; development)
(Greek: bend, curve, turn, a turning; response to stimulus)
(Greek: trokhilia, "pulley, system of pulleys, roller"; Latin: trochlea, "system of pulleys")
(Greek: auger, borer; parasitic protozoa)
(Greek: chance, fortune, fate, providence; by accident, an unforeseen or unexpected occurrence)
(Greek: a knob; callus, callous, callosity)
(Greek: blind, blindness [typhlos, blind]; denotes relationship to the cecum or the first part of the large intestine, forming a dilated pouch; also called the "blindgut" or "blind intestine" [caecum, "blind, blind gut", typhlon, cecum])
(Greek: cheese)
(Greek: wooly; curly)
(Greek: gum)
(Greek: the twentieth letter of the Greek alphabet; Υ, υ; upsilon symbol with hook, ϒ)
(Greek: heaven [s], vault of heaven; hence "the sky"; from Uranus, the god of the sky; in medicine, the palate, roof, or top of the mouth)
(Greek: roof of the mouth; literally, "little vault of heaven")
(Greek: urinary canal)
(Greek: urethra, a slitlike tube conveying urine from the internal urethral orifice of the bladder)
(Greek: urine [water, rain, wet])
(Greek: the color yellow; blond)
(Greek: dry)
(Greek: the fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ξ, ξ)
(Greek: sword)
(Greek: wood; the first element of various scientific and technical words that refer to wood)
(Greek: razor)
(Greek: scrape, scratch, shredded; polish; razor)
(Greek: a suffix that means; state of, condition of, quality of, act of)
(Greek: from octo-, "eight"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet; Ζ, ζ)
(Greek: juice, soup, sauce, broth)
(Greek: diseases communicated from one kind of animal to another or to human beings; usually restricted to diseases transmitted naturally to man from animals)
(Greek: girdle; belt)
(Greek: bolt or bar)
(Greek: the malar bone or the arch that the malar bone forms with the other bones to which it is connected)
(Greek: ferment, fermentation; leavenl; a leavening agent, a leavening catalyst)
(Hebrew > Greek > Latin > Middle English: dust)
(Greek > Latin: seashore, beach, strand, promontory)
(Greek > Latin: goat)
(Greek > Latin: love feast of the early Christians; love, love feast; to love)
(Greek > Latin: mushrooms or toadstools)
(Greek > Latin: from ager to agri and agrarius, of the land; land, fields)
(Greek > Latin: depending on chance or luck; pertaining to gambling; rolling of dice; game of hazard or chance)
(Greek > Latin: fox; baldness; derived from "mange in foxes"; bald patches on the head)
(Greek > Latin: nourisher; wet nurse; midwife)
(Greek > Latin: @ two-handled; a vessel with two handles or ears; a pitcher or vase)
(an etymological approach to learning more about English words; especially, those from Latin and Greek origins)
(Greek > Latin: elbow)
(Greek > Latin: mosquito, mosquitoes)
(a different kind of vocabulary lexicon that emphasizes English words primarily from Latin and Greek origins)
(Greek > Latin: legume; peanut)
(Greek > Latin: clay)
(Greek > Latin: passive, unworkable, slow; a-, "without, not" + ergon, "work")
(Greek > Latin: fragrance, odor, spice)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix; one who; forms nouns from verbs in -ize; nouns denoting the adherent of a certain doctrine, principle, or custom)
(Greek > Latin: to increase, to grow; growth)
(Greek authentikos > Latin authenticus: original, genuine, authoritative; one who does something himself or herself)
(Greek > Latin: worth, value)
(Greek > Latin: axis)
(Greek > Latin: an ancient Greek and Roman god of wine and revelry; earlier called Dionysus by the Greeks)
(Greek > Latin: bath, bathing; wash, washing)
(Greek balaustion > Latin balaustium: supporting post of a railing on a balcony, staircase, etc. Borrowed from Italian balaustro, from balaustra; so called because of the resemblance of a baluster to the double-curving calyx tube of the "wild pomegranate flower".)
(Greek > Latin: foreign, strange, outlandish)
(Greek > Latin: north, northern)
(Greek > Latin: to feed, to graze)
(Greek > Latin: food)
(Greek > Latin: groin, swollen gland)
(Greek > Latin: bag, sac, saclike; purse)
(Greek > Latin: butter; from bou[s] , "ox, cow" plus tyro[s], "cheese")
(Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread; derived from calx, calcis, "limestone, lime, pebble"; from Greek words halix and psephos, "small stone, pebble".)
(Latin: chamber; from Greek kamara, anything with a vaulted or arched cover; a vault, arched ceiling, or roof)
(Greek > Latin: reed, pipe; the word for "reed" in Hebrew, Arabic, and Egyptian was kaneh; then the word element passed into Greek and Latin, and into the languages of western Europe)
(Greek > Latin: corner of the eye)
(Greek > Latin: map; card [playing]; a piece of papyrus, paper)
(Greek > Latin: to let down, to insert, to thrust in [kata, "down" plus hienai, "to send"])
(Greek > Latin: stem, stalk)
(Greek > Latin: center; middle point, mid point; focus, focal point, focalize; zero in on)
(Greek > Latin: formless matter; especially from Greek, gulf, chasm, abyss, the rude unformed mass; and by extension, "confusion and disorder")
((Greek kharakter, Latin character: a distinctive mark or impression))
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, aktis, aktinos ray; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, alumen, a substance having an astringent taste; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, astatos, unstable; radioactive nonmetal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, baros, heavy; because its compounds are dense; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, beryllus, and Greek, beryllos, gem; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek and Latin, cadmia, earthy or earth; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, chroma, color; because many of its compounds are colored; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, dysprositos, hard to get at; difficult to access; hard to obtain; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, helios, the sun, first observed in the sun’s atmosphere; gas)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, iris, a "rainbow", because of the changing color of its salts; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lanthanein, "hidden", "to be concealed"; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, molybdos, "lead"; metal)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, neo, "new" plus didymon, "twin" [with the element praseodymium]; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, osme, "smell", "malodorousness", "stink"; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, named in honor of the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered at about the same time; and for Pallas, the Greek goddess of wisdom; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the Greek god Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven [the sun] for mankind; radioactive metal rare earth)
(Modern Latin: some say it comes from Greek proto, "first"; plus actinium, "ray"; so, “first actinium”; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, rhodon, "rose"; in reference to the red color of its salts; metal)
(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, technetos, "artificial"; the first man-made artificial element; radioactive metal)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, Thule, the Greek name for land north of Britain or for Scandinavia; rare earth)
(Modern Latin: from Greek, xenon, "stranger"; gas)
(Arabic > Greek > Latin: the art of combining base metals [to make gold]; from Greek, chemia, “Egypt”, supposedly where the art of changing metals into gold existed)
(primarily the learning of the Latin and/or Greek languages, history, and literature)
(Greek > Latin: bars, lattice, grate; used in the sense of "lattice[d], latticelike")
(Greek > Medical Latin: muscle spasm; to move violently; turmoil)
(Greek > Latin: gigantic, enormous, huge)
(Greek > Latin: shell, sea shells; shell-like bone or cavity of the body)
(Greek > Latin: trunk of a tree or body)
(Latin: garland, wreath, crown; from a Greek source meaning, "anything curved; a wreath, a garland")
(Greek > Medieval Latin [c.700-c.1500]: head, skull)
(Greek > Latin: roller, roller-shaped figure; used in the sense of being "roller-shaped, column-shaped")
(Latin: finger, toe; from Greek daktylos)
(Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate")
(Greek > Latin: guile, deceit, deception)
(Greek > Latin: dragon; a kind of serpent; snake; a kind of fish; by extension, a festering sore)
(Greek > Late Latin: to do, to accomplish)
(Greek > Latin: driven on, set in motion; driven, set in motion; ductile; elasticity, elastic)
(Greek ελυτρον > Modern Latin: covering, wrapping; sheath, casing; by extension, vagina)
(Greek > Latin: that which is thrust into something; wedge, stopper; interpolation, obstruction; from "throw in" or "throw into")
(Greek > Latin: praise, approval, acclamation)
(English writers used Greek and Latin to express content)
(scientific presentations used Latin and Greek as their nomenclature)
(the space-age generation continues to utilize terms from Latin and Greek origins)
(Greek ainigma > Latin aenigma: dark saying, riddle, fable; from ainissesthai, "to speak darkly, to speak in riddles")
(Greek > Latin: burn, shine, to kindle; light up; the heavens; the upper air, the sky)
(Greek > Latin: literally, guardian of the bed)
(Anglo Saxon or Teutonic: in Old English times, eye was eage, which is related to a whole range of words for "eye" in other European languages; including, Greek ophthalmos and Latin oculus [with all of its subsequent derivatives])
(The Greek goddesses of destiny)
(Greek > Latin: rock lichen, seaweed; red paint, rouge)
(Hebrew > Greek > Latin: hell or hellfire)
(mythology for all seasons)
(Greek > Latin: to steer or to pilot a ship; to rule; a steersman)
(Greek > Latin: salt or "the sea")
(Greek > Latin: to wander in mind, to dream)
(Greek > Latin: a fitting together, joining, proportion, concord, agreement, musical harmony)
(Greek > Latin: west, evening)
(Greek heuriskein and Modern Latin heuristicus and from German heuristisch; "to invent, to discover")
(Greek > Latin: historical narrative; past events, past knowledge)
(Greek > Latin: hour, time; period of time, season, any limited time)
(Greek Goddess [Hygeia, Hygea, Hygia, Hygieia], the source of the word hygiene)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; state of, condition of, quality of; act of)
(Greek idein > Latin idea; the result of a mental processes)
(Greek > Latin: groin, flank, lower part of the body; gut, bowels, abdomen, loins)
(Greek > Latin: maze; the inner ear)
(posters with translations)
(Greek > Latin: an assumption that is taken for granted; a premise)
(Greek > Latin lepra: flake, scale, scales, scaly, scabby)
(Greek > Latin: lie hidden, secret; forgetfulness, forget, inactive through forgetfulness; also sleepy, drowsy, dull, sluggish)
(Greek > Latin: spleen; a combining form denoting relationship to the spleen)
(Greek > Latin: line, thread, string, cord, net)
(Greek elements that create words that mean "lizard")
(Greek > Latin: the art of speaking and reasoning)
(Greek > Latin: breast, nipple)
(Greek Latin: breast)
(Greek > Latin: learning, science, that which is learned; knowledge)
(Greek makhana, machana > Latin machina: machine, device, tool; an apparatus for applying mechanical power to do work; mekhanikos > machynen, decide a course of action, contrive, plot contrivance; a machine or the workings of machines)
(Greek > Latin: [mekonion to meconium] of or pertaining to the poppy, poppy-juice; opium)
(Greek meniskos > Latin meniscus: a crescent-shaped body, a curved structure, lunar crescent form, semilunar cartilage; diminutive of mene, "moon")
(Greek > Modern Latin: lead [the metal])
(Latin: much, many; combining form of Latin multus "much, many"; which is related to the Greek mala, "very, very much, exceedingly")
(Greek > Latin: unable to speak, inarticulate, dumb; uttering no sound, silent, silence, still, quiet)
(Greek > Latin: membrane, tympanic [drum] membranes in the ears)
(Greek > Latin: secret, occult [probable literal meaning is "one whose eyes are closed"])
(Greek > Latin: volatile petroleum derivative; containing, or derived from the coal-tar derivative naphthol)
(Greek > Latin: drink of the gods; from Greek mythology)
(Greek > Latin: eight, eighth)
(Greek > Latin: song, lyric poem)
(Greek > Latin: [olive] oil; fat)
(Greek > Latin: shoulder)
(Greek > Latin: a kind of whale; large sea creature)
(Greek > Latin: testes; testicles)
(Greek > Latin orgia (pl), secret rites)
(Greek > Latin: mountain; hill)
(Greek > Latin: rice)
(Greek > Latin: wood sorrel; the leaves of the wood sorrel are acidic to the taste)
(Greek palame > Latin palma: palm of the hand)
(Greek > Latin: to bring forth, to bear; producing viable offspring; giving birth to; brood; secreting)
(Greek > Latin: stone, rock)
(Greek > Latin: pharisaios; from Aramaic prisayya; "those who are separate")
(Greek > Latin: bodily malformations; from "seal fins"; a sea calf)
(Latin: magpie; related to Latin, picus, "woodpecker"; probably translated from Greek kissa, kitta, "magpie, jay")
(Greek > Latin: strike, stroke, blow, wound; beat the chest; lament loudly [while beating the chest]; pestilence)
(Pluto, Roman god of wealth, ruled the dark underworld of myth; ninth planet from the sun)
(Greek > Latin: pain, punishment, penalty)
(Greek > Latin: to do, to exercise, doing; action, activity, practice; the opposite of theory; from the stem of prassein, "to do, to act")
(Greek > Latin: literally, "something thrown forward, to throw forward")
(Greek > Latin: convert; stranger, one who has come over; to come to; to surrender; to associate with)
(Greek > Latin: an addition; to put to, add to, to place)
(Greek > Latin: pebble/pebbles, stone/stones; election; vote)
(Greek > Latin: flea)
(Greek > Latin: to recollect, to remember; act of recalling; to recall to memory; to remind of past events)
(Greek > Latin: flow, flowing)
(Greek > Latin: wrinkle, to make full of wrinkles; ridge, fold)
(Greek > Latin: sugar; originally from Sanskrit, "gravel, grit")
(Greek > Latin: bag, pouch)
(Hebrew and Greek: the devil, the adversary)
(Greek > Latin > French: beside, alongside)
(Latin: from Medieval Latin sciatica, in sciatica passio, "sciatic disease", from feminine of sciaticus, "sciatic"; from Latin ischiadicus, "of pain in the hip"; from Greek iskhiadikos, iskhias, iskhiados, "pain in the hips"; from iskhion, "hip joint".)
(Greek > Latin: silk)
(Greek > Latin: leg)
(Greek > Latin: a cave, a cavern, a grotto)
(Greek > Latin: that which binds tightly, press together; band, lace; hence, muscle that closes an aperture of the body; a ringlike band of muscle fibers that constricts a passage or closes a natural orifice)
(Greek > Latin: sponge)
(Greek > Latin: dropping, dripping; trickling; to drip, to drop, to trickle)
(Greek > Latin: mark, reproach; shame, disgrace; from Greek, puncture; brand; tattoo mark; point)
(another way to improve one's Latin-Greek-English vocabulary)
(another approach that can enhance a person's Greek > Latin > English vocabulary)
(words with Latin and Greek origins and from other sources)
(a story told with an emphasis on Latin and Greek roots and affixes)
(learning English words from Latin and Greek elements)
(varieties of mostly Latin-Greek based story translations)
(Greek > Latin: hate, hating, hated, hateful; abhor, abhorrence; loathsome, loathing)
(Greek > Latin: sweat, sweating; perspire, perspiring, perspiration)
(Greek > Latin: fig [sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit that has numerous tiny seedlike fruits that are eaten fresh or preserved or dried])
(Greek > Latin: contraction; to draw together)
(Greek > Latin: ribbon, band, stripe; tapeworm, tapeworms)
(Greek > Latin: confusion, disturbance, irritation, trouble, lack of calmness)
(Greek > Latin: bull, steer)
(Greek > Latin: marvel, omen, monster; malformation)
(Greek > Latin: four; cube; password)
(Greek > Latin: inner room, bedchamber; so called by Galen because chambers at the base of the brain were thought to supply animal spirits to the optic nerves; thalamus, the middle part of the diencephalon (the area in the center of the brain just above the brain stem that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus) which relays sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex of the brain)
(Greek > Latin: place for seeing dramas or shows)
(Greek > Latin: case, capsule, sheath, container, receptacle [also: a placing, a setting, a putting]; "a place where" something is kept)
(Greek > Latin: treasure, treasury, storehouse, chest; a treasury of words)
(Greek > Latin: sand bank, sand dunes; shore)
(Greek > Latin > Old French: swift animal)
(Greek > Latin: any person or something of enormous size or power)
(Greek > Latin: to bear, to support, to endure)
(Greek > Latin: sound, tone; that which is stretched, a stretching, a straining, a pitch of the voice, a musical note)
(Greek > Latin: a numerical prefix meaning, three, thrice, threefold; triple; a word element for number 3)
(Greek > Latin: cave; thriving in caves; cave dweller)
(Greek > Latin: whirlwind, tempest)
(Greek > Latin: an absolute ruler; an oppressor, a dictator)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix that forms singular nouns)
(Venus, Roman goddess; Aphrodite, Greek goddess; second planet from the sun)
(seeing English words in three vocabulary quiz types from different perspectives for a greater enhancement of English-word skills)
(English-Vocabulary Words from Latin and Greek Units Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes that Every Advanced-English Speaker and Reader Should Know)
(an abundance of Word Information about English Vocabulary derived from Latin and Greek sources)
(Greek > Latin: ardor, fervor; jealousy, jealous)
(Greek > Latin: west wind [Old English zefferus from Latin zephyrus from Greek zephuros])
(Greek > Latin: girdle, girded garment)
Word Entries containing the term: “greek






Ecclesiae filii, a Greek phrase.
Sons of the church.

Motto of St. Edmund's School, Canterbury, UK.

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Greek (Ellinikí or Eliniké ) days
Kuriakí (Sunday)
Deutéra [second day] (Monday)
Tríti [third day] (Tuesday)
Tetárti [fourth day] (Wednesday)
Pémpti [fifth day] (Thursday)
Paraskeuí [sixth day] (Friday)
Sábbato or Sabbáto (?) (Saturday)


—Based on information from
by Francis H. Colson; Cambridge University Press;
Cambridge, England; 1926; pages 119-120.
The The Greek alphabet is available on this page.
Greek (Ellinikí or Eliniké) months
ianuários (January)
fevruários (February)
mártios (March)
aprílios (April)
máios (May)
iúnios (June)
iúlios (July)
avghustos (August)
septémvrios (September)
októvrios (October)
noémvrios (November)
thekiémvrios (December)

—Based on information from the
Mediterranean Europe Phrasebook by Tassos Douvartzides;
The The Greek alphabet is available on this page.
Hermes, messenger of the Greek gods, who became Mercury, messenger of the Roman gods
See this Roman god, Mercury and his connections with the planets.
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Units of Latin-Greek mottoes with English translations.
This entry is located in the following unit: Special Contents of Interest (page 3)
Vocabulary Quizzes: English Words from Latin and Greek Origins
Lists of Vocabulary Self-Scoring Quzzes and Tests; another approach to learning English words.
This entry is located in the following unit: Special Contents of Interest (page 4)
Vocabulary Quizzes: English Words from Latin and Greek Origins
An index of a variety of self-scoring Vocabulary Quizzes, from word units.
Units at Get Words related to: “greek
(Greek: eu, "good, well; sounding good" + pheme, "speaking, speech"; mild, agreeable, or roundabout words used in place of coarse, painful, or offensive ones)
(enhance your English vocabulary by taking advantage of word origins)
(here are 14 important words with elements from Latin and Greek sources)
(Herodotus extended his historical coverage beyond the Greek world to the lives, ways, and beliefs of the people with whom the Greeks and the Persians came into contact)
(many of the words used today in English are derived from Greek myths)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “greek
A message from someone who recently purchased a copy of Words for a Modern Age, A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements

John Robertson:

I received your book on 6/26/00. Congratulations on a great book. You no doubt spent a great amount of time in research. I find the book fascinating.

It’s been over 45 years since I studied Latin and Greek in college and unless one keeps it up, one tends to forget. You have rekindled my interest. Now that I’m retired, I’ll have more time. I have always been interested in the origin of words especially from Latin and Greek.

Because the schools do not teach Latin and Greek as they once did, your book would be invaluable in helping students with the English language; thereby enriching their thought process. I am so happy that we still have people in this world who regard knowledge of Latin and Greek essential to scholarly development.

To quote Seneca, Jr. from your book: “Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.” Thank you for your “illusions” and also many thanks to your wife.


Note from your editor: The “illusions” referred to the dedication in Words for a Modern Age, A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements in which I wrote: “Dedicated to my wife, who has been my sine qua non. She has kept me in good health with her loving concern for my well being and has rarely interfered with my efforts to strive for my ‘illusions.’ ”

The Latin quotation by Seneca, Jr. means: “We don’t learn just for school, but we learn for life.”.

Speaking of books. The following came from "The Spelling Newsletter" published by Ray Laurita, Leonardo Press, PO Box 1326, Camden, ME 04843.

Can This Be True? Department

After reading the following exchange which appeared in the Metropolitan Diary, I have a feeling that our readers will be equally dismayed:

Carol Ruth Langer stopped at the information desk of a Barnes & Noble in Midtown to inquire about a copy of the Book of Job.

"How would you be spelling 'Job'?" the clerk asked.

"J -- O -- B", Ms. Langer said.

"Job books are in the career section."

Ms. Langer tried again. "Not job, Job, a book in the Bible".

"Who is the author" the clerk asked.

At that point, Ms. Langer knew it was time to leave.

As seen in the May 15, 2000, issue of the New York Times.
This entry is located in the following unit: Focusing on Words Newsletter #11 (page 1)
Additional words that were found which are derived from the Greek element tribo- are explained in the following contents:

Additional words that exist that are derived from the Greek element tribo-: nanotribology, [no dictionary seems to be available that has a definition for this term.] The following definitions came from various sources on the internet.

First, on Thursday, January 21, 1999, there was the following information from Dr. Jacqueline Krim, Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina:

“Thank you for your inquiry. Yes, I coined the term nanotribology in a paper I wrote in 1991, entitled, ‘Nanotribology of a Kr [krypton] monolayer: A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Atomic-Scale Friction’, J. Krim, D. Solina and R. Chiarello, PRL, 66, (1991) p. 181-184.”

“I would define nanotribology as the sub-field of tribology involving contact geometries which are well-characterized at atomic length or time scales. These tend to be on the order of nanometers and nanoseconds.”


Secondly, on Friday, January 22, 1999, I received another clarifying definition that I had requested from a contact I found on the internet.

I asked for a simple, easy to understand definition of “nanotribology” and this is what he sent to me:

“Tribology is the science and technology of two surfaces in relative motion which encompasses friction, wear, and lubrication. Nanotribology allows the study of friction and wear processes on nanoscale.”

—Prof. Bharat Bhushan, Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor
and Director, Computer Microtribology and Contamination Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio

Now you know what nanotribology means, don’t you? If you want to know more about nanotribology, here are excerpts of other definitions; but be WARNED that if they are too confusing or of no interest to you, you may scroll down to the area where other tribo- words are presented. Don’t give up before you see the rest of the list, please.

Micro/nanotribology as a field is concerned with experimental and theoretical investigations of processes ranging from atomic and molecular scales to the microscale, occurring during adhesion, friction, wear, and thin-film lubrication at sliding surfaces.

This involves determination of the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of the surfaces undergoing relative motion at length scales of the order of nanometers. Interaction between rubbing surfaces occurs at asperities [roughness of surfaces] at which the local pressure and temperatures can be very high.

These conditions can lead to formation of tribochemical films with the unusual properties necessary for efficient wear protection. The nanomechanical properties of these films are being investigated by interfacial force microscopy (IFM) which is capable of determining the elastic constants and anelastic behavior of the films in boundary layer lubrication.

Proposed nanotribology experiments for the Triboscope include studying the effect of different contact areas, scan directions and crystallographic orientations on both lubricated and unlubricated surfaces.

Tribology is the study of friction, lubrication and wear. Nanotribology is roughly defined as the study of these same phenomena down to the nN and nanometer force and length scales.

I hope I haven’t lost you in the sea of obfuscation (confusion, obscurity, or bewilderment) because there are other interesting words to learn. Here are additional examples that are derived from tribo-:

  • triboelectric, an electrical charge produced by friction between two objects; such as, rubbing silk on a glass surface.
  • triboelectricity, in physics, electrical charges produced by friction between two surfaces; static electricity.
  • Frictional electricity … was supposedly known to the ancient Greeks, particularly Thales of Miletus, who observed about 600 B.C. that when amber was rubbed, it would attract small bits of matter. The term “frictional electricity” gave way to “triboelectricity,” although since “tribo” means “to rub,” the newer term does little to change the concept.

    —A.D. Moore (as seen in The American Heritage Dictionary of Science
    by Robert K. Barnhart; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston; 1986).

  • tribofluorescence, triboflurescent; to give off light as a result of friction.
  • tribologist, a specialist in the science of tribology.
  • tribology, tribological, the science of the mechanisms of friction, lubrication, and wear of interacting surfaces that are in relative motion.
  • triboluminescence, the quality of emitting light under friction or violent mechanical pressure.
  • triboluminescent, exhibiting triboluminescence.
  • tribophosphorescence, tribophosphorescent; to produce light by friction.
  • tribothermoluminescence, thermoluminescence [luminescence resulting from exposure to high temperature] produced in a material as a result of friction.
  • tribometer, an instrument for estimating sliding friction.
  • tribophysics, the physical properties or phenomena associated with friction.
  • tribophosphoroscope, an instrument for examining triboluminescence.
  • tribulation, originally from Greek; then through Latin, “to press; affliction”; distress, great trial, or affliction.

“The Roman tribulum was a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or iron teeth. It was used to bring force and pressure against wheat in grinding out grain.

The machine suggested the way trouble grinds people down and oppresses them, tribulations becoming another word for troubles and afflictions. The word is first recorded in English in 1330.”.

—From the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
by Robert Hendrickson; Facts On File, Inc., New York; 1997.

The Romans ground out their corn [make that grain-J.R.] with a heavy roller, mentioned in Vergil’s Georgics among agricultural instruments: the tribulum, diminutive noun, from tritere, trit —, to rub, from Greek tribein, to rub. Being ground under and pressed out made an excellent metaphor to express the trials and tribulations of the early Christians.

Dictionary of Word Origins by Joseph T. Shipley.

“To know the origin of words is to know how men think, how they have fashioned their civilization. Word history traces the path of human fellowship, the bridges from mind to mind, from nation to nation.

“Some of the words in our language can be traced to a remote past; some have histories that begin but yesterday. Many are members of large families, with intertwining legend and history. Slow change, swift new coinage of science or slang, ancient or recent borrowing from many tongues: together they give flexibility, power, and beauty to English, the richest and most widespread language of all time.”

— Joseph T. Shipley, from the Preface of his Dictionary of Word Origins.
Greek alphabet

Used in math and science.

Α α, alpha
Β β, beta
Γ γ, gamma
Δ δ, delta
Ε ε, epsilon
Ζ ζ, zeta
Η η, eta
Θ θ theta
Ι ι, iota
Κ κ, kappa
Λ λ, lambda
Μ μ, mu
Ν ν, nu
Ξ ξ, xi
Ο ο, omicron
Π π, pi
Ρ ρ, rho
Σ σ, sigma
Τ τ, tau
Υ υ, upsilon
Φ φ, phi
Χ χ, chi
Ψ ψ, psi
Ω ω, omega
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Herodotus, Greek Traveler and Historian

A short description of Herodotus, a well-known Greek historian.

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