Ancient Greek words first recorded in the 1st century BC

It is a verbal adjective from Ancient Greek ἀντιδίδωμι (antidídōmi, “to give in return, give instead”) + -τος (-tos), meaning “given in place of” or “given against”. The verb is made of ἀντί (antí…

It is from Ancient Greek ἀφροδίσιος (aphrodísios, “of Aphrodite”) + -ακός (-akós). The adjective ἀφροδίσιος (aphrodísios) is from the name of the goddess of love, Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

It is formed from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, doctrine”) + -ικός (-ikós). Latin borrowed it as dogmaticus.

It is from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “appearance, significance”) with the suffix -τικός (-tikós). Köbler and Etymonline trace it to the verb ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō) “to show, indicate”, from whose…

It is the name from Ancient Greek Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphródītos), the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, used as a common noun for a person with the attributes of both sexes. The name is a compound from…

It is a compound from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”) with the adjectival ending -ος (-os). Babiniotis compares ἀλλόδοξος (allódoxos) and ὁμόδοξος (homódoxos).

It is from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma, “something laid down”) + -ικός (-ikós), built on the stem of θέμα (théma).

It is a popular word for a working horse, and a loanword, but its source is unknown. Beekes and Frisk take it, like Latin caballus, to be an Asian loanword or a Wanderwort, perhaps first an ethnic…

It is certainly a loanword. It is usually taken as an Indic word, borrowed from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpā́sa, “cotton bush”), but Beekes, Frisk and Chantraine point out that the history of their…

It is formed from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “Magus”) + -ικός (-ikós). The noun μάγος, a member of the Median priestly caste, is from Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (maguš), the name of a Median tribe with…

From the verb from Ancient Greek μεταμορφόω (metamorphóō) + -σις (-sis), “to transform”, with the suffix of action nouns. The verb is made of μετά (metá), here expressing change, and μορφή (morphḗ)…

It is from Ancient Greek μετώνυμος (metṓnumos), “connected with a change of name”, with the abstract suffix -ία (-ía). The adjective is a compound from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) + ὄνομα (ónoma)…

It is a compound from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “single, alone”) + γραμμή (grammḗ, “line”), literally “of a single line”. Köbler gives γράμμα (grámma) as the second element. The adjective…

It is a compound from Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos, “few”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “ruler”). The second part belongs to ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule”) and ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”). The word is much later than…

It is from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιός (onomatopoiós, “coiner of names”) with the abstract suffix -ία (-ía). Babiniotis instead takes it as a back-formation from the verb ὀνοματοποιέω (onomatopoiéō…

It is a noun of action in -σις (-sis), from Ancient Greek παρεντίθημι (parentíthēmi, “to put in beside”), itself made of παρά (pará, “beside”), ἐν (en, “in”) and τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”)…

It is from Ancient Greek πολύγαμος (polúgamos, “married to many”) with the suffix -ία; the adjective is a compound of πολύς (polús, “many”) and γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).

A verbal adjective, from σεβάζομαι (sebázomai, “to revere”) with the suffix -τός (-tós), "worthy of reverence". σεβάζομαι (sebázomai) was formed from σέβας (sébas, “awe”), beside σέβομαι (sébomai)…

It is formed from Ancient Greek Σήρ (Sḗr) + -ικός (-ikós), from the name of the Seres, a people of the Far East, probably the Chinese, from whom silk came. The name of the Seres is of unclear…

It is formed from Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) + -ικός (-ikós), from the verb meaning “to look about, consider”. The verb itself goes back, with a change in the order of its consonants, to…

It is formed from Ancient Greek στοά (stoá, “colonnade, porch”) + -ικός (-ikós), so it first meant “of the porch”. The name of the school comes from the Painted Porch, the Ποικίλη (Poikílē) Stoa at…

It is a noun from Ancient Greek συγκόπτω (sunkóptō, “to cut up”) with the suffix -η (-ē), the verb being formed from σύν (sún, “with, together”) and κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, cut”). Babiniotis…

It is a compound from Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). LSJ compares Hebrew Biblical Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (šiqmā), the name of the tree, and Etymonline reports the view that…

It is from Ancient Greek συνεκδέχομαι (sunekdékhomai), “to take on a share of; to understand a word along with another”, with the suffix -ή, and can also be analysed as from Ancient Greek συν-…

It is formed from Ancient Greek τεχνολόγος (tekhnológos, “one who writes on an art”) + -ία (-ía). The base is a compound of τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, craft”) and λέγω (légō, “to speak”).

It is formed from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -ικός (-ikós).

It is from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”) + ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to speak in public”): “speaking otherwise”, saying one thing and meaning another. Hesychius defines it as language “that points…

It is formed from Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”) + -ίας (-íās) (stem ⟨γαλακτ-⟩); the τ became σ before ι, giving ξ. It was originally an adjective, “milky”, short for “the milky κύκλος (kúklos…

It is formed from Ancient Greek ἐτυμόλογος (etumólogos, “one who studies the true sense of words”) + -ία (-íā). Its first element is ἔτυμος (étumos, “true”), whose neuter ἔτυμον (étumon) meant the…

It is formed from Ancient Greek εὐφημίζω (euphēmízō, “to speak words of good omen”) + -ισμός (-ismós). The verb is from εὔφημος (eúphēmos, “of good omen”), formed from εὖ (eû, “well”) and φήμη…

It is formed from Ancient Greek κακόφωνος (kakóphōnos, “ill-sounding”) + -ία (-íā); the adjective is formed from κακός (kakós, “bad”) and φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”).