List of modern words formed from Greek polis information

polis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This List of modern words formed from Greek polis recounts the use of the ancient Greek word polis to form modern...

Polis (/ˈpɒlɪs/, US: /ˈpoʊlɪs/; Greek: πόλις, Greek pronunciation: [pólis]), plural poleis (/ˈpɒleɪz/, πόλεις, Greek pronunciation: [póleːs]), means ‘city’...

mixture of Greek and other roots, e.g., 'television' (< Greek τῆλε + English vision < Latin visio); these are often shared among the modern European...

usage of educated Greeks (such as the Phanariots) and the Greek church; its syntax was essentially Modern Greek. After the Greek War of Independence and...

words of Greek origin Greek alphabet List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names Wiktionary's articles on Ancient Greek romanization...

history of modern Greece covers the history of Greece from the recognition by the Great Powers — Britain, France and Russia — of its independence from the...

AD. It includes work not only from within the borders of the modern Greek state, but also from other areas where Greek was widely spoken, including Istanbul...

is a list of flags used in the modern state of Greece or historically used by Greeks. List of Cypriot flags Flag of Greece per Royal Decree of 20 February...

Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens. Often called classical Greek, it was the prestige dialect...

This article contains a list of reconstructed words of the ancient Dacian language. They have been restored by some linguists from attested place and personal...

Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced [eliniˈka]; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of...

the Parthenon. The word Acropolis is from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "highest point, extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city"). The term acropolis is generic...

This is a list of English language words whose origin can be traced to the Spanish language as "Spanish loan words". Words typical of "Mock Spanish" used...

Western philosophy, ancient Greek law, Greek mythology, Greek food and the Greek Alphabet. The following is a list of inventions, innovations or discoveries...

Modern Greek Enlightenment led to the emergence among Westernized Greek-speaking elites of the notion of a Greek nation. A secret organization formed...

most ethnic Greeks live within the borders of the modern Greek state or in Cyprus. The Greek genocide and population exchange between Greece and Turkey...

just like the names of the Greeks. The ancient and modern name of the country is Hellas or Hellada (Greek: Ελλάς, Ελλάδα; in polytonic: Ἑλλάς, Ἑλλάδα), and...

assessment This is a list of known military alliances of ancient Greek poleis. They comprise the terms symmachia and koinon, both of which meant a league...

house of modern Greece and the place where the first Greek opera, Spyridon Xyndas' The Parliamentary Candidate (based on an exclusively Greek libretto)...

Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages...

Cappadocian Greeks, also known as Greek Cappadocians (Greek: Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; Turkish: Kapadokyalı Rumlar) or simply...

other symbols. The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The most common native ethnonym is Hellen (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην), pl. Hellenes...

of Aetolia-Acarnania regional unit, and the seat of the municipality of Iera Polis Mesolongiou (Greek: Ιερά Πόλις Μεσολογγίου, lit. 'Sacred Town of Missolonghi')...

The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "turquoise and white one" (Greek: Γαλανόλευκη, Galanólefki) or the "azure and white" (Κυανόλευκη...

Erastês should be distinguished from Greek paiderastês, which meant "lover of boys" usually with a negative connotation. The Greek word paiderastia (παιδεραστία)...

Greek literature (Greek: Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία) dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today...

Epidaurus (Greek: Ἐπίδαυρος) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula at the Saronic Gulf. Two modern towns bear the name Epidavros:...