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Your Greek Word Legacy (English Edition)

For centuries the phrase "It's Greek to me" has been used to express how difficult and incomprehensible the Greek language is.
The Greek language is undoubtedly difficult, but a significant part of Greek words lives within the English language. Words that philosophers and thinkers of ancient Greece such as Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and others have created and used in their works are an integral part of the English vocabulary.
This work records 10,000 Greek words adopted by the English language with clear definition and correlated with English words, most of which will be proved to be familiar and "not Greek to you at all".
Furthermore,
  • Greek roots are highlighted and clearly defined,
  • it explains the meaning of Greek phrases such as Oedipus complex, Pandora's box, rhetorical question, Trojan horse, alpha and omega, Gordian knot, Halcyon days, Electra complex, Elysian fields, Platonic love, Pyrrhic victory, etc.
  • it gives the etymology of personal names like Dora, Thalia, Melissa, Cleopatra, Anastasia, George, Chloe, Alex, Jason, etc.,
  • the main characteristics of the historical names and the names of mythology that are used in English, such as amazon, atlas, phoenix, Midas, odyssey, Nemesis, hermaphrodite, mentor, colossus, Cassandra, Penelope, Narcissus, laconic, Hector, Nestor, etc.,
  • it provides the pronunciation of Greek words with the aid of phonetic alphabet,
  • English conversation words are linked with Greek word synonyms like
    • sports and athletics,
    • elementary and basic,
    • hermaphroditeand bisexual,
    • hypothesis and assumption,
    • discussion and dialogue and many more.

At the very least you will enrich your vocabulary.
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