Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

There's no epic mythology to a word so basic, and no considerable change throughout the English-speaking centuries (though until the 1300s, "meat" and "food" meant pretty much the same thing), but ...

In Greek, even if origanos was actually from a different language, it happened to sound a lot like two already-existing Greek words, orei ("mountain") and ganos ("brightness, joy"), which were ...

The etymology behind things we say and write every day can have some unexpected roots. Here are the surprising origins of 10 everyday words, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary . "Phony" ...

At Petertide, Andrew Davison explores the origins of words associated with Holy Orders. Illustrations by Dave Walker ...

Cannellini beans are native to Peru, but have a decidedly Italian sounding name, but several other cultures played a role in ...

Words like judo, sushi, or tsunami have broken through into the vocabulary familiar to everyone. If we look back to the 1800s, Latin, French, Greek, and German are much more dominant .

Diseases get their names from a variety of sources — from Latin or Greek root words, from place names, from the clinician who discovered them, or a well-known patient who had them. But we throw ...

In “Cases, or an Orderly Anarchy of Words,” Marcolongo writes eloquently, “Capable of indicating the exact function of words without ambiguities, the ancient Greek case system makes for a ...

This word comes from type, which comes from the Latin typus, which in turn comes from the Greek τύπος, which referred to a mark, impression, relief, figure, image.