English words from Medieval Greek
- stigmaAn indication of infamy or disgrace.
- KyraA female given name of modern usage.
- isonAccompanying drone in Byzantine music.
- zeonthe hot water added to the chalice by the priest during the Byzantine Eucharist to commemorate the water that flowed from the crucified Christ's side when pierced by the spear
- PrevezaA city in Epirus, Greece.
- MethodiusA male given name, notably of the Byzantine Christian theologian and missionary.
- DmytroA transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Дмитро (Dmytro)
- Agios TheologosFormer name of Selçuk: a town in İzmir Province, Turkey, near the ruins of ancient Ephesus.
- ArvaniteA member of a population group in Greece who traditionally speak Arvanitika, a dialect of Albanian, and who settled in Greece during the late Middle Ages.
- Asparukhthe name of а ruler of Bulgars in the second half of the 7th century AD
- hieromonkA monk of the Eastern Church who is also a priest.
- horologionA liturgical book containing the daily offices of the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
- mandylionoften Mandylion: the Image of Edessa, a holy relic consisting of a piece of cloth upon which an image of the face of Jesus Christ had been miraculously imprinted without human intervention (that is, an acheiropoieton); an artistic depiction of this relic.
- miaphysiteOf or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ has a single, though composite, nature.
- MiaphysitismA Christological formula, upheld by the Oriental Orthodox Church, holding that divinity and humanity are united in a single nature in Christ.
- MonotheleteSomeone who believed Christ had two natures (human and divine), but one single will; a Monothelite.
- myroblyteA saint whose relics or place of burial are said to have produced the Oil of Saints ("an aromatic liquid with healing properties" or "holy water (very much like myrrh)") or the odour of sanctity.
- omophorionA band of brocade originally of wool decorated with crosses and worn on the neck and around the shoulders as the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority in the Eastern Christian liturgical tradition, equivalent to the Western archepiscopal pallium.
- sakkosA richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
- stauropegialOf or pertaining to a stauropegion.
- stauropegionIn Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.
- turcopoleA mounted archer locally recruited by the Christian states during the Crusades.
- tzetzesA surname from Medieval Greek — famously held by
- VarangianA member of the ethnically Scandinavian people around the borders of Constantinople in the ninth and tenth centuries.
- vraka(A pair of) baggy breeches worn in the Balkans, the Greek islands (especially Crete) and in Cyprus chiefly by men but also by women