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Basic Greek Words, Phrases, and Slang to Learn Before You Go to Greece

With a little practice, the language won't be "all Greek" during your next visit. So, you’re finally going to go on that long ...
CBC.ca

English dictionary of ancient Greek gets a vulgar update complete with F-bombs

For the past hundred or so years, classics students who looked up the ancient Greek verb χέζω in a commonly used English dictionary would find it modestly translated as "Ease oneself, do one's need." ...
Greek Reporter

Tantalize: How a Greek Myth of Eternal Punishment Became an English Word

The English word "tantalize" comes from the iconic Greek myth of Tantalus, an ancient Greek king who faced a brutal ...
Indiatimes

Greek words for love to add to the vocabulary

When we hear the word 'love', we think hearts, roses and romance. Modern society puts a lot of emphasis on that type of love, in particular, automatically discrediting and dispriorotising other kinds ...

Hindi, Greek and English all came from a now-extinct tongue

Linguists have developed methods for reconstructing the ancestral language, and refer to it using the label Proto-Indo-European or PIE ...
Travel + Leisure

Basic Greek Words, Phrases, and Slang to Learn Before You Go to Greece

With a little practice, the language won't be "all Greek" during your next visit. Helen Iatrou is a travel journalist and guidebook author from Australia who has lived in Greece for almost three ...