Ancient Greek Words

For Xenos, I tried Others and different... Alien would be good too.

No, it means love, as in philanthropy--the love of man, or Philadelphia--city of brotherly love, or bibliophile--lover of books... I don't know many people who kiss books on a regular basis. Greek has four different words for love.

Sorry mrpappas and serval, but: Phili (fili) is kiss in modern Greek; and Phileo means 'love' -- as does 'agape'. North American Greeks are not proficient in the modern or ancient Greek languages to make these 'assumptions' (corrections), as they only end up confusing people. I suggest just sticking to the facts -- and if you don't know, you don't even need to actually open a book. Just Google it.

variations of MAN ought to be accepted for Andros - men, male, etc.

Hooray! Someone actually knows what irony is. Seems to be a synonym of coincidence these days.

How was I able to fill in the blank for ophthalmologist as an eye doctor earlier today and yet didn't figure out that ofthalmos is eye? I'm silly.

This quiz has a few issues. "Man" is ἀνήρ (aner) in Ancient Greek; ἀνδρός (andros) is its genitive ("man's"). Τῆλε (tele) is correct, but it's an adverb, so "at a distance" may be a clearer translation. There is a word ὁμός (homos), but it's very rare; you should use the much commoner ὅμοιος (homoios; cf. e.g. "homoeopathy") instead. As you write "ichthus", you should also write "gumnos" ("u" corresponds with Greek υ, i.e. upsilon), and as you write "pharmakon", "phobos" etc., you should also write "ophthalmos", i.e. "ph" for φ (phi). If you want to mark Greek word accents as in "ophthalmós", you should do so in every word, so anér, biblíon, theós, mikrós, gumnós etc.

I am in total shock that I got them all. Some where complete guesses.

Some iamverysmart Greek language grammar nazis in the comments section. Perhaps they have a future as Roman centurions correcting politically subversive graffiti in Jerusalem?

34% for Tele- ? Television, telescope, telephone, telegraph, telegram, teletype. I thought we all learned this in school.

pleasantly surprised I got all but "eye" makes sense now, opto- if I only I could ve looked passed the f. it felt familiar though. The gymnos took a while. First associatio was gymnasium and I remember that originally didnt meant school, but a place where they did sports, (indeed naked, but took a while before that detail came up) so tried exercise, body, sports first, I was starting to think I was on the wrong path completely, but then thought, could it be naked...? And it was ! somehow I really dont feel that gymnos should be the word for naked. Just a completely ungrounded feeling, some words seem to work or fit for a definition even if you dont know the exact meaning ( ok if you dont get what I mean, the last few sentences will look like gibberish haha)

Interesting quiz! - Learned a few things (Sophia).

And yet when I turn up at the gym with no clothes on, suddenly I'm banned. Barbarians.

Hey, don't blame the berbers!

You might want to consider accepting 'remote' for Tele.

Am I wrong here that "sophia" doesn't mean "knowledge," but "wisdom" as distinct from "knowledge" (i.e. gnosis, probably other words too)? This is a pretty important part of Ancient Greek philosophy post-Plato (clue in the name), but the fact that no one else has commented on this has made me doubt myself! I'm pretty sure it should not be "knowledge" though!

You are correct! "Gnosis" is "Knowledge," and "Sophia" is "Wisdom." Philosophy derives from the compound meaning, "the love of wisdom."

I noticed that too.

50,000 Greek words in the English language! OPA...We invent everything!