Ancient Greek Words

For Xenos, I tried

Others and different... Alien would be good too.

That’s where the words gymnastics, gym, etc. come from, because in the ancient Olympic Games the athletes were competing naked

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.

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

I thought it was like rain on your wedding day. Or a free ride that you've already paid.

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.

Can you please accept 'similar' for 'homos'? Would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!!!

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.

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.

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

μα φυσικά

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!

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

Only 4 of the words are ancient. The rest are still being used to the greek language up until this day.

I just love Greece. The place, the history, the people, the food, the language... I started learning modern Greek two years ago, so this was no big challenge for me. I'm so pissed I've had to cancel my holidays there this year! I was supposed to spend ten days in Paros for a language course, and then a few days in Syros and a week in Naxos.

This quiz needs some cleaning up for consistency:

Ofthalmós is how the modern Greek is anglicized. The ancient is ophthalmos.

Pick Y or U for single upsilon and stick with it. It’s either gymnos/ichthys or gumnos/ichthus. The usual way to do it is with a Y, like in ichthyology.

Why are phileo and klepto the only verbs? Makes better sense to stick to noun (and adjective) forms: philia and kleptes. The roots are still recognizable.

You’ve got andros in the genitive (possessive) form just because it makes connecting with English derivatives easier. But would you put “man’s” on a similar English quiz? The form you want is aner. You could put andros in parentheses to help people out.

Is this truly "ancient" Greek we're working with here? Or more recent "classical" Greek? More gerontos than archaeos?