Figs, Syko in Greek, represented an important product of the ancient Athenian economy. Credit: E.Abadjieva/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 We all know about the great richness of Greek words and how ...

The word "church" in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ... Origin of the English word 'church' The English word "church" itself is Anglo-Saxon in origin.

Vassilios P Vertoudakis, lecturer in Ancient Greek philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens told BBC, “All the same, Philotimo has become one of the building blocks of the Greek ...

Few foods have exploded in growth and popularity as much as Greek yogurt. Though its roots date back to ancient Greece where it was named oxygala - the Greek word for "sour milk," Greek yogurt's ...

The origin of the word “authentic” comes Greek “authentikos”, meaning principal and genuine. Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0/Flickr The Greek word “authentic” was selected as the 2023 word of the year by the ...

Solving crosswords can feel a bit like watching “Scooby-Doo” without the talking dog, of course. You’re looking for the answers to today’s clues, hoping to fill out that mysterious board. Well, unlike ...

The fact that numerous languages from all across the globe, especially in the Western world, have borrowed words, phrases and expressions from the Greek language, is not news. It is also well-known ...

Previous evidence has shown that word frequencies calculated from corpora based on film and television subtitles can readily account for reading performance, since the language used in subtitles ...