Ancient Greek words first recorded in the 1st century

It is from Ancient Greek ἀνευρύνω (aneurúnō), “to dilate”, with the suffix -μα. The verb is made of ἀνα- (ana-) “up” and εὐρύνω (eurúnō) “to widen”, from εὐρύς (eurús) “wide”.

It is a compound, from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-) + -οψία (-opsíā), “a seeing for oneself”. Bailly derives it from αὔτοπτος (aútoptos) “seen oneself”, Babiniotis from αὐτόπτης (autóptēs)…

It is formed from Ancient Greek βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”) + -ίτης (-ítēs), usually with λίθος (líthos, “stone”) understood. Beekes derives βάσανος (básanos) from Egyptian baḫan, a stone that…

It is a compound, from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon) + -γραφία (-graphíā) “book” + “writing”, or a derivative of βιβλιογράφος (bibliográphos) “copyist of books”. βιβλίον (biblíon) is a diminutive…

Beekes considers it Pre-Greek because its forms alternate between ⟨τ⟩ and ⟨ττ⟩, and thinks that Latin buttis (“cask”) may be borrowed from Greek. Frisk, on the contrary, takes the Greek word as a…

It is from Ancient Greek Γάγαι (Gágai), the name of a town and river in Lycia, with the suffix -της (-tēs), as Pliny already said. Chantraine calls this a normal way of forming such a name. Beekes…

It is formed from Ancient Greek γάλα (gála) + -ικός (-ikós), from the stem γαλακτ- (galakt-) of the noun for “milk”.

It is formed from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “divinity, spirit”) + -ικός (-ikós). Latin borrowed it as daemonicus, the source of English demonic.

It is the adjective from Ancient Greek διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “to distinguish, discern”), formed on the verbal adjective διαγνωστός (diagnōstós) with the suffix -ικός (-ikós); Wiktionary takes it…

It is from Ancient Greek δοξολόγος (doxológos, “telling the glory of”) with the abstract suffix -ία (-ía), and δοξολόγος (doxológos) is made of δόξα (dóxa) and -λογία (-logía), from λέγω (légō).

From the verb from Ancient Greek ἐλεφαντιάω (elephantiáō, “to suffer from elephantiasis”) with the suffix from Ancient Greek ἐλεφαντιάω (elephantiáō) + -σις (-sis), which forms nouns of action and…

It is formed from Ancient Greek ἐμπλάσσω (emplássō, “to plaster on”) + -τρον (-tron). It stands beside the feminine ἔμπλαστρος (émplastros) and the older ἔμπλαστον (émplaston), the neuter of the…

It is borrowed from Pali siṅgivera (“ginger”), a Middle Indic word, corresponding to Sanskrit शृङ्गवेर (śṛṅgavera), which is in turn from Tamil. Frisk considers the Sanskrit form probably a false…

It is a late feminine from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”), made to replace the older word for an aunt, τηθίς (tēthís). The masculine is a familiar word, not one of the old inherited kinship…

It is the feminine of the adjective from Ancient Greek θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), used as a noun with ἀντίδοτος (antídotos, “antidote”) understood. The adjective is formed…

It is formed from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indian; the river Indus”) + -ία (-íā). The base, the name of the river Indus and of the people living by it, is from Old Persian hiⁿdūš, from…

It is formed from Ancient Greek κλιμακτήρ (klimaktḗr, “rung of a ladder; critical point in life”) + -ικός (-ikós). The noun is from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder”), which comes from κλίνω…

It is from Ancient Greek κλινικός (klīnikós, “of or for a bed”), its feminine used as a noun with τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, craft”) understood. The adjective is from κλίνη (klínē, “bed, couch”) with the…

It is formed from Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed, couch”) + -ικός (-ikós), “of the bed”. The noun κλίνη is from Ancient Greek κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, incline”), from a suffixed form of the root…

It is short for “Cydonian μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”)”, the neuter from Ancient Greek Κυδώνιος (Kudṓnios, “Cydonian”) used as a noun; the phrase was also made into the compound μηλοκυδώνιον…

The origin is disputed. Frisk and Wiktionary explain it as a blend compound of λέων (léōn, “lion”) and πάρδος (párdos, “leopard”). Beekes doubts this, because πάρδος (párdos) is found only once, in…

It is from Ancient Greek Μαγδαλά (Magdālā́), the town of Magdala on the Sea of Galilee, and means “woman of Magdala”. The Suda explains it simply as a name taken from a place. The place name is…

It is from Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō), “to knead”, from its stem μαγ- (mag-), seen in the passive aorist ἐμάγην (emágēn), with the suffix -μα (-ma) that forms nouns of result: “something kneaded”…

It is formed from Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) + φερνή (phernḗ, “dowry”): literally the goods given alongside the dowry. The noun is from φέρω (phérō, “to carry”), from Proto-Indo-European…

1. The ship's cable is from earlier *πένθσμα (*pénthsma), a noun in -μα (-ma) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). Greek may have kept that verb in πάσχω (páskhō), though in a quite…

It is the neuter of the adjective from Ancient Greek πεντάγωνος (pentágōnos, “five-angled”), used as a noun. The adjective is a compound of πέντε (pénte, “five”) and γωνία (gōnía, “angle, corner”).

It is from Ancient Greek σαρκόω (sarkóō) + -μα (-ma), “to make fleshy”, a verb made from σάρξ (sárx) “flesh”.

It is from Ancient Greek στράγξ (stránx, “a drop squeezed out”). That noun is formed like στρίγξ (strínx) and λύγξ (lúnx). Its further origin is disputed. Cognates are often seen in Latin stringō…

It is from Ancient Greek συγκρητίζω (sunkrētízō), “of two parties, to unite against a common enemy”, with the suffix -μός (-mós). The verb is made of συν- (sun-) “together” and the name of the…

It is formed from Ancient Greek χαρίζομαι (kharízomai, “to show favour, give freely”) + -μα (-ma), the suffix of result nouns: “a favour given”. The verb comes from χάρις (kháris, “grace, favour”)…

It is borrowed from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשַׁע נָא (hōšaʿ nāʾ, “please save”), a shortened form of Biblical Hebrew הוֹשִׁיעָה נָּא (hōšîʿāh nnāʾ) in Psalm 118:25. BDAG takes the short form as Aramaic…

It is formed from Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “dissection”) + -ικός (-ikós).

It is a compound from Ancient Greek δι- (di-, “twice”) + λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”). λῆμμα (lêmma) is formed from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”). Babiniotis and the Greek Wiktionary take it…

It is formed from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιάζω (enthousiázō, “to be inspired by a god”) + -τής (-tḗs), an agent noun of the verb; Wiktionary starts from the noun ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós…

It is formed from Ancient Greek ἐσώτερος (esṓteros, “inner”) + -ικός (-ikós), the suffix of relation added to the comparative of ἔσω (ésō, “within”). LSJ thinks it was probably coined as the…

It is formed from Ancient Greek ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, peculiar”) + συν- (sun-, “with”) + κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”) + -ία (-íā). Babiniotis analyses it as ἴδιος (ídios) with a noun from…

It is formed from Ancient Greek καταλύω (katalū́ō, “to dissolve, destroy”) + -τικός (-tikós). Πάπυρος derives it from the agent noun καταλύτης (katalútēs) instead.

It is formed from Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros, “lot, inheritance; clergy”) + -ικός (-ikós). The adjective first concerned inheritances; its Christian sense comes from κλῆρος (klêros) as the name of…

It is a compound from Ancient Greek μῆλον (mêlon, “apple, tree fruit”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe; a kind of melon”), an “apple-melon”. Etymonline explains πέπων (pépōn) as a gourd name that is probably…

It is a compound from Ancient Greek πάλιν (pálin, “back, again”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, course”), that is, “running back”. The second part is the stem of the verb of running, which the…

It is a compound, with the combining form παντο- (panto-), from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs, “all”) + μῖμος (mîmos): “one who imitates everything”. Bailly links the second part with the verb μιμέομαι…

It is from Ancient Greek παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt, salted”), its neuter plural, used as a noun. Παστός is the verbal adjective of πάσσω (pássō) “to sprinkle”, whose further origin Beekes…

It is from Ancient Greek προύμνη (proúmnē, “plum tree”). Beekes, Frisk and Chantraine think the tree name was probably borrowed together with the tree from an unknown language of Asia Minor, since…

An old European name of the turnip. Beekes considers the group Pre-Greek, because the variation between ⟨π⟩ and ⟨φ⟩ (ῥάπυς beside ῥάφυς (rháphus)) and the suffix of the related ῥάφανος (rháphanos)…

It is formed from Ancient Greek σαρκάζω (sarkázō) + -μός (-mós), an action noun. The verb is rare and its meaning disputed: Aristophanes uses it of dogs that bite stubbornly, the Hippocratic…

It is formed from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “organized whole, system”) + -ικός (-ikós). σύστημα (sústēma) is from συνίστημι (sunístēmi, “to put together”).

It is a compound from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓrā, “hour, season”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), “one who watches the hour”, that is, the hour of a birth. Babiniotis explains the name the same way: an…