Word origins

• manticRelating to divination; prophetic.
• AutolycusA thief or plagiarist.
• arsisRaising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
• physisNature, as contrasted with law or custom.
• chitonA loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece and in Ancient Rome.
• klismaphiliaThe condition involving enjoyment of, and sexual arousal from, enemas.
• pentadSynonym of quinquennium: a five-year period, especially in reference to the first and second halves of calendrical decades.
• tektonA carpenter or mason.
• EretriaA town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf. It was an important polis in the 6th/5th century BC.
• bariabaryta
• sketeA secluded religious community in Eastern Orthodox Christianity which is a dependency of, and generally less physically substantial than, a monastery, generally consisting of living quarters and a church.
• KhemLetopolis
• olpeOriginally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.
• threnodyA song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
• SapphiraA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• ectropionA condition of loose eyelids, characterized by the turning outward of the lower eyelid.
• XantheA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• AstypaleaAn island of Greece.
• terasa grossly malformed fetus
• CariaA historical region in the southwest corner of Asia Minor, in modern Turkey.
• RhodopeA woman in Greek mythology.
• dendronA slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell; a dendrite.
• ProcrustesA celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length.
• NephthysAn ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.
• triskelionA figure composed of three interlocked spirals (or three bent human legs), with threefold rotational symmetry.
• kraterAn ancient Greek vessel for mixing water and wine.
• artosa loaf of leavened bread that is blessed during services in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic churches.
• DotoOne of the Nereids.
• BouphoniaThe annual sacrifice of an ox and mock trial of the slaughterer at the ancient Athenian Dipolieia.
• ataraxiaTranquility of mind; absence of mental disturbance.
• HephaestionAn ancient Macedonian nobleman and general in the army of Alexander the Great, noted as a lifelong personal friend of Alexander's.
• theogonyThe origination of gods or a narrative describing the origin of gods.
• hydriaA three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to hold and pour water.
• autogyroAn aircraft in which lift is provided by unpowered rotating wings and thrust is provided by a conventional propeller.
• cephalalgiaA pain in the head; headache.
• anabasisA military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
• DeucalionThe son of Prometheus, husband of Pyrrha. Both survived a deluge sent by Zeus to punish the human race.
• azygosIn anatomy, a structure that is unpaired. This is relatively unusual, as most elements of anatomy reflect bilateral symmetry.
• bathosOverdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
• AgenorKing of Phoenicia, father of Cadmus and Europa, and ancestor of Dido.
• PlutusThe god of wealth in Ancient Greek religion and myth. He was the son of Demeter and Iasion.
• CampeA female monster, the guard in Tartarus of the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers, whom Cronus, ruler of the Titans, had imprisoned there.
• TrismegistusThe epithet of Hermes, the mythological author of the central text of hermeticism.
• daricA gold coin from Persian Empire, introduced by Darius the Great (522-486 BC) and used until Alexander the Great's invasion (330 BC).
• pederastyErotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.
• EvadneA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• cyteSynonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).
• isobathA line on a map or chart joining places of equal depth of water; a depth contour.
• kyklosIn Ancient Greece, a raised platform within the agora, where goods were displayed for sale.
• demagogyRule by demagogue.
• AlectoOne of the Furies.
• olecranonThe bony process at the top of the ulna forming the point of the elbow.
• politeiacitizenship
• symposionA drinking together; a symposium.
• TenesThe eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos.
• ambeAn old mechanical contrivance, ascribed to Hippocrates, for reducing dislocations of the shoulder.
• ThyestesA king of Olympia; the son of Pelops and Hippodamia; and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. He and his brother Atreus were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother Chrysippus.
• PasiphaeThe daughter of Helios and the sister of Circe. She was raised as a princess at Cholchis, and then given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, and Catreus. She was also the mother of the Minotaur.
• MeroeAn ancient city on the east bank of the Nile.
• dolichosA long-distance race in the ancient Olympic Games.
• BriseisA legendary figure who features in the Iliad; a princess granted as concubine to Achilles after the sacking of her city, Lyrnessus, before the beginning of the story.
• IambeA Thracian woman, daughter of Pan and Echo, granddaughter of Hermes.
• abaptistonA trepan having a conical shape so that injurious penetration of the brain is impossible.
• abatonAn enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept.
• abaxAn ancient counting board containing grooves in which counters were placed; a forerunner of the abacus.
• AbsyrtusA Colchian prince, the son of Aeëtes.
• AcaciusA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• acanthoma adenoides cysticumA cystic tumor that is hereditary and occurs on the chest and face among other regions.
• AchlysAn ancient Greek goddess of death-mist, misery and sadness.
• AcoemetaeAn order of fifth-century monks who, by turns, kept up a divine service day and night.
• acrolithAn ancient Greek wooden statue furnished with a rupestral head and limbs.
• acrotericRelating to the extremities of the limbs or to the tip of the nose
• Actistetesa Julianist sect which stood in opposition to the Ctistolatræ an believed that Jesus shouldn't be spoken of as a created being, which was a form of Docetism and anti-Nicenean.
• -adA unit or set (especially of a specified number).
• adelphicDescribing a form of polyandry in which a woman is married to two or more brothers
• adelpho-Related to siblings.
• adelphoiThe brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ, named in the New Testament as James, Joses, Simon, and Jude; unnamed sisters are mentioned in Mark and Matthew.
• adelphopoiesisFraternisation between men.
• AdephagiaThe goddess and personification of gluttony.
• adephagousgreedy, gluttonous
• AdrasteaThe goddess of divine retribution
• adynamiaLack or loss of strength, usually due to a disease.
• adytonSynonym of adytum.
• aedoe-Relating to genitalia.
• -aemiaBlood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.
• AenianiaA small Ancient Greek district to the south of Thessaly (which it was sometimes considered part of), in Central Greece. It was associated with Oetaea.
• agalmaA cult image or votive offering.
• agamyAbsence or nonrecognition of marriage, or absence of a pair bond.
• aganactesisAn exclamation made out of a sense of deep indignation.
• AgapemoneAny community characterised by mutual love or free love.
• agathodaemonA benevolent spirit, as opposed to a cacodemon (an evil daemon).
• AgionitesAn obscure Encratite sect condemned, alongside others, at the Synod of Gangra in the 4th century.
• agogeIn ancient Greek music, tempo or pace; rhythmical movement.
• agonothetesAn officer who presided over the great public games in Ancient Greece.
• agraphonAny of the sayings of Jesus found in various ancient texts but not in the four Gospels.
• agronymAny proper name by which a field or other unit of agricultural land is known.
• aidosshame, modesty, or humility, regarded as a virtue in Ancient Greece
• ailuro-Cat.
• aischrolatreiaThe worship of filth.
• aitionAn origin story or myth in Ancient Greece.