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And if this is a word that gives a hard time to both Greek and Spanish speakers, there are plenty of other words of everyday use that come from Greek as well: idea, tema, teatro, música, ritmo, teléfono, política, gramática, historia, análisis, matemáticas just to mention a few....
The Origin of Genesis “Genesis” is a word that is both the Greek for the first book of the Bible and the origin, formation or creation of anything living or inanimate. It derives from the Greek verb “gignesthai” that means ”to be born” or “to become.” Words such as “gene”...
For a time the whole Latin lexicon became potentially English and many words were coined on the basis of Latin precedent. Words of Greek origin have generally entered English in one of three ways: 1) indirectly by way of Latin, 2) borrowed directly from Greek writers, or 3) especially in ...
Bridge game (from the Russian word, biritch, which in its turn originates from a Turkic word for "bugler" (in modern Turkish: borucu, borazancı).Cosmonaut (Russian: космонавт (IPA [kəsmɐˈnaft] (kosmos a Greek word, which in Russian stands for "outer space", ...
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This is especially true of the early dictionaries of English, written in the 1600s and early 1700s, a time when a dictionary sometimes seemed to include only esoteric words that you’ve never heard of before, mostly with Latin and Greek origins. From the Latin word aegrōtāre meaning “to...
"male of the domestic fowl," from Old Englishcocc"male bird," Old Frenchcoc(12c., Modern Frenchcoq), Old Norsekokkr, all of echoic origin. Compare Albaniankokosh"cock," Greekkikkos, Sanskritkukkuta, Malaykukuk. "Though at home in English and French, not the general name either in Teut...
But most Greek-origin words in English did not come straight from ancient Greek. Many are modern, not ancient, combinations of Greek root words. For example, you probably know the telephone was not used by the ancient Greeks. But the word itself is all Greek, made up of the Greek words...
Sense relations between words 摘要：词与词之间不同的涵义关系，词语也会被他们之间的联系划分成不同的部分。在本文中，我将会介绍一下英语词汇中存在的主要涵义关系。一般来说有五种公认的涵义关系,即:相同关系,多义现象,同音异义,反义关系,上下义关系.关键词：相同关系, synonymy；多义关系，polysemy; 同音异...