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From atoms to democracy, English leans on ancient Greek for the vocabulary of science, thought, and everyday life.
2,729 words · 0 Greek roots
183 words in Words & Writing
Acronym
Words“tip name”
Acrostic
Words“at the tip of the line”
Allegory
Words“speaking otherwise”
Alpha
Words“ox, from Phoenician ʾālep”
Amphibrach
Words“short at both ends”
Anachronism
Words“a putting back in time”
Anacoluthon
Words“not following on”
Anadiplosis
Words“a doubling back”
Anagram
Words“letters over again”
Analogy
Words“according to ratio”
Anapaest
Words“struck back”
Anaphora
Words“a carrying back”
Anecdote
Words“things not published”
Anonymous
Words“without a name”
Anthroponym
Words“human name”
Antihero
Words“in place of a hero”
Antistrophe
Words“a turning back”
Antonomasia
Words“naming instead”
Antonym
Words“opposite name”
Aphorism
Words“a marking off”
Apologue
Words“a telling-off, a tale told”
Apology
Words“a speaking back”
Apophasis
Words“a speaking away, denial”
Aposiopesis
Words“a falling silent”
Apostrophe
Words“a turning away”
Apothegm
Words“a thing uttered plainly”
Archaism
Words“the practice of the old”
Asterisk
Words“little star”
Asyndeton
Words“not bound together”
Autobiography
Words“self-life-writing”
Autograph
Words“self-written”
Barbarism
Words“speaking like a foreigner”
Bathos
Words“depth”
Beta
Words“house, from Phoenician bēt”
Bibliography
Words“book-writing”
Bibliophile
Words“book lover”
Biography
Words“life-writing”
Bombast
Words“cotton padding”
Bucolic
Words“cowherd-like”
Cacography
Words“bad writing”
Catachresis
Words“misuse”
Catalogue
Words“a reckoning down the list”
Catastrophe
Words“a turning down”
Chiasmus
Words“a crossing shaped like the letter chi”
Chirography
Words“hand writing”
Chronicle
Words“things of time”
Colophon
Words“the finishing stroke”
Comma
Words“something struck off”