Word origins

• tomosAn ecclesiastical document, usually promulgated by a synod which communicates or announces important information.
• CronusThe youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia; father to the first generation of Olympian gods and goddesses.
• HypnosThe god and personification of sleep. The son of Nyx and Erebus, twin brother of Thanatos, husband of Pasithea, and the father of the Oneiroi. His Roman counterpart is Somnus.
• ApollyonThe destroying angel of the abyss, the undoer or disintegrator.
• MnemosyneA Titaness and the personification of thought, intellect and memory, who is the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.
• melasSynonym of leprosy, particularly contagious forms causing dark spots on the skin.
• doxaPopular opinion or belief.
• hydrousContaining combined water; hydrated.
• DemocritusA Greek philosopher (c.460-c.370 BC). The originator of the atomic theory together with his teacher Leucippus.
• CharybdisA dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast.
• MomusThe personification of satire and mockery.
• narthexA western vestibule leading to the nave in some Christian churches.
• noeticOf or pertaining to the mind or intellect.
• arethusaA bog orchid, Arethusa bulbosa, sole species of the genus Arethusa, having a magenta flower; the dragon's mouth.
• AtreusA mythological king of Mycenae and son of Pelops and Hippodamia.
• agonisticOf or relating to contests that were originally participated in by the Ancient Greeks; athletic.
• pneumaA neume.
• bemaA platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
• IphigeniaThe daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.
• AIONA Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac.
• ComusThe god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances, a son of Dionysus.
• CleonA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• astheniaWeakness; loss of strength.
• EuphemiaA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• melosThe melody in Ancient Greek music.
• isobarA line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure.
• SoterAn honorific epithet for rulers, heroes, and gods.
• agmaThe velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink.
• rhemaA spiritual communication or inspiration from God to an individual, as opposed to the universal Logos.
• gyneThe primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees), those destined to become queens.
• hydatidA cyst due to infection by larvae of some species of the tapeworm Echinococcus.
• PyrrhusA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• demiurgeThe (usually benevolent) being that created the universe out of primal matter.
• dynamisPotentiality.
• AmphionAny of numerous characters in Greek mythology. See Wikipedia article.
• AmorgosAn island of the Cyclades, Greece.
• epistasisThe modification of the expression of a gene by another unrelated one.
• korbanThe ritual sacrifice of a livestock animal at Eid ul-Adha.
• hydropsThe abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in a tissue or cavity.
• AletheaA personification of truth in Greek philosophy.
• PausaniasA male given name.
• anorecticCharacterised by a lack of appetite, especially as suffering from anorexia nervosa.
• basileusA title of the Byzantine emperor.
• koineA linguistic variety that has developed in supraregional contact between speakers of various interrelated dialects, typically in such a way that features shared by several dialects prevail and those of limited distribution are avoided.
• GlyfadaA city and municipality, a suburb 13 km south of Athens city centre in Attica, Greece.
• idiosyncrasyA behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group.
• smegmaA whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva.
• sarosA quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
• sycophanticExcessively eager to please, especially for personal gain; obsequious, flattering.
• ethnosAn ethnic group, or a people who have a common national or cultural tradition.
• ouroborosA serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
• zeugmaThe act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.
• ProclusA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• autarkyA personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.
• ThutmoseA male name used in Ancient Egypt, notably borne by Thutmose III, a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
• megaraA city west of Athens in Attica, Greece.
• lycanthropyThe state of being a lycanthrope (or werewolf), a person who can shapeshift between the form of a human being and a wolf, often said to happen involuntarily during a full moon; werewolfdom.
• gasterThe stomach.
• praseodymiumA chemical element (symbol Pr) with an atomic number of 59, a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile rare earth metal, valued for its magnetic, electrical, chemical, and optical properties.
• thallusAn undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.
• ChlorisA nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.
• naosThe inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
• MelpomeneThe Muse of tragedy
• orgiasticRelating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.
• demoticOf or for the common people.
• panagiaAn ornament worn hanging on the breast by Russian bishops.
• AulisAn ancient port town in Boeotia, Greece, where, according to legend, the Greek fleet gathered to set off for Troy, and where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.
• EuterpeThe Muse of music and lyric poetry.
• pterosaurAny flying reptile, of the extinct order †Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls.
• metanoiaA fundamental change of mind.
• charakterA glyph with no agreed semantic or phonetic value, generally formed by deforming a letter of the Greek alphabet or a simple geometric symbol via one of several predefined processes, used as part of magical texts in the Hellenistic world.
• TEOSAn ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia.
• glucuronicOf or pertaining to glucuronic acid or its derivatives.
• archaeanOf or relating to Arche, the Muse of beginnings in Greek mythology.
• philiafriendship
• AnaxagorasAn ancient Greek philosopher (c. 500 BCE – 428 BCE) from Clazomenae, who is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of nous (mind), as an ordering force.
• PylosA town and ancient city in Messenia prefecture, Greece, formerly named Navarino.
• protologyThe branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.
• OresteiaA trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE
• tetrakisHaving four identical units
• ArimatheaA city of Judea, the reported home of Joseph of Arimathea, the man who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion.
• deicticOf or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context.
• TiresiasA long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.
• kyriosThe male head of a household in Ancient Greece.
• AtroposOne of the three Fates, or Moirae; a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the cutter of the thread of life, depicted as an old woman. Her Roman counterpart is Morta.
• FolegandrosA small Greek island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Cyclades.
• EsaiasIsaiah (biblical character).
• alastorAn avenging spirit or deity, variously associated with the Erinyes, Nemesis, and more.
• anaxAn Ancient Greek tribal chief or leader.
• hetaThe Ancient Greek letter eta, or variants of it, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant /h/.
• epistemeScientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
• kalonIdeal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as perceived by Greek philosophers.
• pterygiumAn abnormal mass of tissue in the corner of the eye that obstructs vision.
• paidiaFree play, such as make-believe, that lacks the structured rules of formal games.
• zoicShowing traces of life; containing organic remains.
• aulosAny of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
• aristosAn Ancient Greek nobleman.
• NereusThe eldest son of Pontus (the sea) and Gaia (the earth).
• telsonThe part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment, often resembling an armored tail or tip of the tail.
• polydactylyA congenital condition in which a person or animal has more than the usual number of digits (fingers or toes) on at least one of the hands or feet.