Ancient Greek Words
Translate these ancient Greek words into English.
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Last updated: June 26, 2019
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| First submitted | September 13, 2013 |
| Times taken | 31,436 |
| Rating | 4.59 |
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kalbahamut
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Level 79
Dec 10, 2013
Learned what Gymnos meant today. Got everything else pretty easily. Maybe you could accept "alien" in place of foreign?
gstridsigne
+2
Level 37
Jun 28, 2016
For Xenos, I tried
Others and different... Alien would be good too.
mrpappas
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Level 54
Dec 10, 2013
Phileo means kiss, not love
wolfcat95
+4
Level 53
Dec 10, 2013
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.
Gassu
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Level 72
Aug 28, 2018
Have you read the title?
leni
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Level 65
Aug 3, 2018
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.
constantinosgr
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Level 43
May 16, 2014
Bull is written as Tavros, Fish as Ichthis, Same as Idio (idios, idia)
Chestnuthare
+3
Level 56
Sep 6, 2014
Ironically I didn't know what Sophia meant
trebek
+4
Level 72
Jun 27, 2016
Hooray! Someone actually knows what irony is. Seems to be a synonym of coincidence these days.
stromae
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Level 64
Nov 26, 2014
this is good if you know your latin roots
Zefyrinus
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Level 67
Mar 25, 2015
Ofthalmós doesn't follow the same romanization scheme as the rest of the words.
MyMindWentBlank
+4
Level 52
Apr 17, 2017
Yeah, I was wondering why only that one word has an accent on it. Technically all of them should. In fact, why not just write them as they should actually be spelled using Greek letters? That would have made the quiz much less confusing.
Malkiboy
+2
Level 44
Jul 24, 2019
I would've liked to see them all spelled in Greek as well
AdamH
+1
Level 65
Aug 21, 2019
Along with using f as the equivalent of phi , when all the other words with phi in this quiz use ph, the standard romanization for phi.
akwildrose
+2
Level 53
May 1, 2015
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.
Geoboy
+2
Level 33
Dec 2, 2015
Interesting, but a bit strict: recommend to recognize the variations (I put 'distance' for 'Tele' and 'know' for 'Sophia' but weren't accepted).
Sulps
+1
Level 59
Jun 26, 2016
I don't speak Greek but I think "human" should be accepted for "Andro" and "town" for "Polis".
Arp2600
+3
Level 80
Jun 26, 2016
Human is anthropos, man is andros and woman is gynae.
NicSal14
+2
Level 56
Jun 26, 2016
Please accept wisdom for Sophia
AwesomenessReborn
+1
Level 25
Jun 26, 2016
Can you please accept 'similar' for 'homos'? Would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!!!
emwcee
+1
Level 44
Jun 26, 2016
i enjoyed this quiz. Did better than I thought I would.
Timothee
+6
Level 15
Jun 27, 2016
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.
TheHawwk
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Level 32
Aug 26, 2016
could you possibly accept Nude or Nudity for Naked? I just couldn't think of naked and all I had was nude lol
tuzdayschild
+1
Level 58
Sep 8, 2016
I am in total shock that I got them all. Some where complete guesses.
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 64
Aug 21, 2019
I was pleasantly surprised I got all but two.
martay
+1
Level 63
Aug 4, 2018
Some iamverysmart Greek language grammar nazis in the comments section. Perhaps they have a future as Roman centurions correcting politically subversive graffiti in Jerusalem?
someone2018
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Level 81
Nov 24, 2018
34% for Tele- ? Television, telescope, telephone, telegraph, telegram, teletype. I thought we all learned this in school.
MrKenny
+2
Level 63
Aug 21, 2019
well if distant of remote was accepted, the % would be much higher
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Dec 17, 2018
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)
divantilya
+1
Level 38
Mar 8, 2019
Interesting quiz! - Learned a few things (Sophia).
Tramp
+3
Level 71
Aug 21, 2019
And yet when I turn up at the gym with no clothes on, suddenly I'm banned. Barbarians.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 67
Aug 21, 2019
Hey, don't blame the berbers!
Mokonek
+2
Level 57
Aug 21, 2019
You might want to consider accepting 'remote' for Tele.
peslac
+2
Level 31
Aug 21, 2019
Helps to be Greek! lol
rawe
+1
Level 65
Aug 21, 2019
Would be nice if you could accept "tiny" for Mikros
WanHuangdi
+2
Level 70
Aug 21, 2019
Well, it’s all Greek to me!
Clarisse451
+3
Level 64
Aug 21, 2019
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!
DKCtheSecond
+1
Level 38
Feb 19, 2020
You are correct! "Gnosis" is "Knowledge," and "Sophia" is "Wisdom." Philosophy derives from the compound meaning, "the love of wisdom."
nojik
+2
Level 50
Aug 21, 2019
I am Greek. I found everything.
Sulps
+3
Level 59
Aug 23, 2019
Am I seeing things or is this quiz featured on both 21 and 23 August, just 2 days apart? Surely some other quiz was meant to be featured instead of the same quiz again.
tylerdavid
+1
Level 69
Aug 23, 2019
I noticed that too.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Aug 23, 2019
Sorry about that. We'll have some stern words for our quality control officer back at JetPunk HQ.
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 83
Aug 23, 2019
The same thing happened last month with the quiz about The Lion King.
Dfizzle
+1
Level 19
Aug 23, 2019
50,000 Greek words in the English language! OPA...We invent everything!
aasl25
+1
Level 54
Aug 24, 2019
Please accept "rob" for klepto
tolis126
+1
Level 48
Jun 16, 2020
Only 4 of the words are ancient. The rest are still being used to the greek language up until this day.
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