Ancient Greek l Can Romance Language Speakers Guess Ancient Greek Words?

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  @chiaraferlito · 1 year ago

  as an italian who studied ancient greek in high school years ago, I was impressed by the amount of words I could remember and the ones I could guess the meaning of!

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• GA

  @gaetano.4230 · 1 year ago

  I am a former student of the classical high school in Italy, I really enjoyed translating Ancient Greek, I loved Greek literature. Wonderful culture. ❤ 🇮🇹🇬🇷

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• JO

  @johns6795 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7W_mHHMS0&amp;t=355">5:55</a> France lost the vowels because Italy stole them is funny

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• OZ

  @ozancandemirsk9423 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Arche&quot; in archeology comes from the Greek word &quot;arkhe&quot;. It literally means &quot;the study of origins&quot;.

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• KO

  @Konstantina-g4e · 1 year ago

  From the word &quot;logos&quot; come many compound words, for example &quot;theology&quot;, biology, geology, anthropology etc.

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• RO

  @romanastasia7 · 1 year ago

  Not only because I&apos;m Romanian, I really like Zara.

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• IS

  @isalutfi · 1 year ago

  Latin alphabets (🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇵🇹🇷🇴) are derived from Greek &nbsp;🇬🇷alphabets.

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• KO

  @kourtourafi · 1 year ago (edited)

  In ancient Greek &quot;δράμα&quot; (drama), which meant theatical play in general, comes from the greek verb (common in both ancient and modern greek) &quot;δρῶ&quot; (drô) meaning to act/ to do sth. So drama means action or that something happens, takes place. Obviously, if we talk about a play, drama is what you see on stage. Now, theatre comes from the ancient greek middle voice verb &quot;θεῶμαι&quot; (theômai), which means to watch/ observe. Therefore, drama and theatre mean the same thing but from different perspectives; drama from the perspective of the actor (who acts) and theatre from the perspective of the spectator, who watches.

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• JE

  @jetlag133 · 1 year ago (edited)

  ΥΔΩΡ = HYDRO = WATER ..some examples Hydroelectric<br>Hydrology<br>Hydrogen<br>Hydroplane<br>Dehydrate<br>Hydraulic<br>Hydrocarbon<br>Hydrotherapy<br>Hydrant

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• IL

  @ilefab4545 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Angel... they don&apos;t realize it is the same word with only different pronunciation

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• PO

  @portishphonic · 1 year ago

  The lack of language pattern recognition in this group is really worrying. Hydro is similar to &apos;hidrografic&apos; in Romanian, &apos;angelo&apos; is &apos;angelic&apos;, etc, etc.

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• HA

  @hariszark7396 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Cosmos in Greek means the Universe, the people and also something that is decorative.<br>Because everything that exists in the universe is decorative. And the people are the decoration of Earth. You will understand the word better if you think the word &quot;cosmetic&quot;.

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