Your Greek Word On A Sunday
Award nominated, bite-size podcast. Every Sunday, Greek words used in the English language. Travelling words, connecting cultures.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 308
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 168: Allegory
(Intro & Piano music)This word followed the route most Greek words took to come here. Greek-Latin-Old French-Middle English-Modern English. It arrived around the 14th century and it hasn't changed me…
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Sun 10 Apr 2022
Episode 167: Paradigm
(Intro & piano music)Δείκνυμι (diknimi) is an ancient Greek verb and it means 'I show', 'I present'. Para is a preposition meaning 'beside'. The act of putting two or more things side by side to comp…
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Sun 03 Apr 2022
Episode 166: Dolphins
(Intro & piano music) I've decided to give myself a little cheerful research for a change and tell you a myth. These magnificent creatures were believed to be two things: the link between the human a…
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Sun 27 Mar 2022
Episode 165: Oligarchy
(intro & piano music)Ancient Greece has seen a fair amount of different types of ruling, from Kings to Democracy and it's been a bumpy ride. Άρχειν (archin) is an ancient Greek infinitive and it mean…
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Sun 20 Mar 2022
Episode 164: Philodox
(Intro & Piano musi) In my search for information on this word in English, I was told by the internet, multiple times, that this is a very rare word. I say we bring it back. It's a word that has two …
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Sun 13 Mar 2022
Episode 163: Despotic
(intro & music)Δεσπόζω is an ancient Greek Verb, The adjective is Δεσποτικός and the noun Δεσπότης, meaning the absolute ruler of the land. The word didn't always have negative connotations , it was …
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Sun 06 Mar 2022
Episode 162: Catastrophe
(intro & piano music)Κατά (kata) is a preposition and, among other things, it means 'down'. Στροφή (strofi) means 'turn'. The combined word originally meant 'a turn for the worse' but it arrived in E…
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Sun 27 Feb 2022
Episode 161: Elegy
(Intro &piano music)An Ελεγεία in ancient Greece was a religious poem made from two different verses. An hexameter and a pentameter. The poems escaped religion and started getting thematically wider …
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Sun 20 Feb 2022
Episode 160: Melody
(intro & piano music)Music is primarily comprised of three parts, Αρμονία/Harmony, Ρυθμό/Rhythm and Μελωδία. That last one is a combined word from μέλος(melos) meaning 'part' and ωδή (ode) meaning 's…
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Sun 13 Feb 2022
Episode 159: Rhinoceros
(intro & piano music) Ρις (Rhis) in ancient Greek (and as a medical term, in modern Greek too) menas 'nose'. Κέρας (Keras) means 'horn' . Since in Greek 'I' is pronounced as 'E' and the Greek alphabe…
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Sun 06 Feb 2022
Episode 158: Analysis
(Intro & piano music)Ανά (ana) in Greek, is both a preposition and a prefix depending on its use and one of its meanings is 'again'-'going over something'. Λύω (Lyo) is a verb and it means to dissolv…
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Sun 30 Jan 2022
Episode 157: Mystic
(Intro & Piano music) Μυώ (meo) is an ancient Greek verb and it means I initiate someone into a religion, I induct. The ceremony for that induction is called a μυστήριον (mystirion). The biggest reli…
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Sun 23 Jan 2022
Episode 156: Syringe
Before we start today, i'd like to reassure you that, there's nothing wrong with your podcast platform or this podcast. Human error however, made the episode supposed to be released last week, releas…
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Sun 16 Jan 2022
Episode 154: Symposium
SYMPOSIUM/ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟ(intro with piano music)Happy New Year everyone! Today, we're going to talk about parties.The preposition 'συν' means with/together. Πόση means 'drink'. In ancient Greece a Συμπόσιο…
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Sun 02 Jan 2022
Episode 153: Acme
ACME/ΑΚΜΗ(Intro with piano music) With the winter solstice right behind us, New Year's eve coming up and this being the last episode of the year, I couldn't think of a better word. Ακμή in Greek mean…
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Sun 26 Dec 2021
Episode 155: Decade
DECADE/ΔΕΚΑΣ(Intro with piano music)Δέκα (Deka) in both ancient and modern Greek means, ten (so does Dasa in Sanskrit by the way). Δεκάς (dekas) means a group of ten ot ten parts of something, In Lat…
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Sun 26 Dec 2021
Episode 152: Carols
CAROLS/ΧΟΡΟΣ(Intro with piano music)Χορός (choros) in both modern and ancient Greek, means Dance. Αυλός (aulus) means pan-pipe or flute. In Ancient Greece there was a festival in honour of Dionysus, …
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Sun 19 Dec 2021
Episode 151: Symptom
SYMPTOM/ΣΥΜΠΤΩΜΑΣυν (syn) is a preposition and it means 'with' . Πίπτω (Pipto)is an ancient Greek verb ,still in use today, and one of its meanings is 'I occur'. The combined infinitive is Συμπίπτειν…
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Sun 12 Dec 2021
Episode 150: Mathematics
MATHEMATICS/ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΙΚΑ Μανθάνω (Manthano) in ancient Greek and Μαθαίνω (Matheno) in modern, means 'I learn'. Τέχνη (techne) means 'art' but also 'craft'. Around 600BC a man called Θαλής (Thales)of Mi…
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Sun 05 Dec 2021
Episode 149: Hyper
HYPER/ΥΠΕΡWords transitioning from the Greek Alphabet to the Latin one, usually get a do-over in both spelling and pronunciation. Thankfully in most of them, you can still detect similarities in the …
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Sun 28 Nov 2021
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