Provide a list of words that originated in ancient Greece and explain how they are used today?

Answer 1

With the prefix "anti" i.e. Against, opposed to, which is Greek, you can have hundreds, perhaps thousands of words

Answer 2

There are many, many, many.

Just about anything that finishes with "ology" or "phobia" for instance will have a Greek root.

The Greek language has contributed to the English vocabulary in three ways:

1. directly as an immediate donor,
2. indirectly through other intermediate language(s), as an original donor (mainly through Latin and French), and
3. with modern coinages or new Greek.

One can estimate the contribution of Greek words to English in two basic ways. One is to count the proportion of distinct words in the vocabulary (type frequency); another is to count the proportion of words in continuous text (token frequency).

To estimate type frequency, we can use a typical English dictionary of 80,000 words, corresponding very roughly to the vocabulary of an English-speaking adult. Based on this sample, about 5% of the English vocabulary comes from Greek directly, and about 25% indirectly. If modern technical and scientific coinages using Greek roots are also counted, the percentage increases. Conversely, if token frequency in typical running text is used, the percentage decreases dramatically.

Answer 3

There are at least 50.000 greek words that are used in other modern languanges.It would be quite difficult to mention them all so i suggest you do a search.Try to search for a speach by Xenofon Zolotas in Washington,former greek president, it is a speach in English but containing only words of greek origin,its a quite impressive demontsration of the amount of greek words used today.

Answer 4

Zone-Greek, belt
Astro-Greek, star
Epistle-Greek, epistle, letter(as in mail)
Christ-Greek, Christos(Messiah, Hebrew)
Theology-Study of God
Agape-Love
Micro-small
Macro-large, long
Philanthropy, Philatelic, Philosophy etc.
I Cr 13;8a
12-8-6

Answer 5

Start with the PHOBIAS, eg agoraphobia, acrophobia, hydrophobia, arachnophobia etc

There are thousands of words to choose from.

Answer 6

wikipedia.com is the way to go....is this for some kind of educational homework cheat?

Answer 7

i searched for something similar two days ago

in this site you can find anything you want