Greek word list
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- aden
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III noun - adenos
gland - aer
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III noun
air, gas - agogos
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leading
promoting flow, expelling - agra
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a taking, catching
painful seizure - aisthesis
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III noun
feeling, sensation, perception - aisthetos
- perceptible (adverb)
- asthenesai
- to perceive (forms aisthesis)
- aitia
- cause
- ake, akme
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point, tip
highest point of - akouein
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to hear
aor: acous-, sometimes acus- - akros
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at the end, summit (adj)
extremities - aktis
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III noun - aktinos
ray
light ray, ray-like or radiating structure - algos
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III noun - algeos
pain - algesis
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III noun
sense of pain - allos
- other, different, external, foreign
- allelon
- of each other (gen. plural)
- allotrios
- strange
- amblys
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III adj
dulled, blunt - amnion
- innermost membrane enclosing the fetus
- amoibe
- change
- amygdale
- almond, tonsil
- amylon
- starch
- anemos
- wind
- aner
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III noun - andros
a man, male
stamen of flower - angeion
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vessel (blood, lymph, bile)
case - anthein
- to blossom, break out, erupt
- anthos
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III noun - antheos
flower
rash - anthropos
- man (human being)
- antron
- cave, cavity, sinus
- archaios
- ancient
- arche
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beginning, origin, primitive
(see arche- in prefixes) - argyros
- silver
- arteria
- windpipe, vessel
- arthron
- joint, juncture of bones, sound in speech
- aster, astron
- star
- -aster
- pertaining to structure or origin
- astragalos
- anklebone, ball of the ankle joint
- autos
- self, by itself (fem: aiate)
- auxein
- to increase
- auxanein
- to grow
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ba- or be-
bainein, benai - to go, walk
- basis
- a walking, a step, a foundation
- bakterion
- a little staff or rod
- ballein
- to throw, toss, put
- bole or bolos
- a throw
- metabole
- throwing after, change
- baros
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III noun - bareos
weight, pressure - barys
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III adj
heavy - bathys
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III adj
deep, inner - bathos
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III noun - batheos
depth - bios
- life
- biosis
- a living, way of living
- blastos
- a bud, shoot, sprout, embroynic cell
- blepein
- to see
- blepharon
- eyelid
- boule
- will, wish
- brachion
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III noun
arm, upper arm - brachys
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III adj
short - bradys
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III adj
slow - bronchos
- windpipe, trachea
- chasma
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III noun - chasmatos
cleft, opening - chasis
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III noun
separation, division - cheilos
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III noun
lip - cheir
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III noun - cheiros
hand - chloros
- green, yellowish green, yellow
- chole
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bile, gall
bitter anger - chondros
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granule
cartilage - chorde
- gut-string, sinew, cord
- choreia
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dancing
St. Vitus' dance - chorion
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skin
outermost membrane enveloping the fetus
tunic of the eyeball - chroa, chroma
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chroma - III noun - chromatos
surface of body, skin
colour of the skin
colour - chronos
- time
- chrysos
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gold
yellow -
chy-
cheein - to pour
- chymos, chylos
- something poured, juice, fluid
- choane
- funnel
- dakryon
- tear
- daktylos
- finger, toe
- deein
- to tie
- desmos
- band, bond, ligament
- delta
- triangle-shaped, like the letter
- demos
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country, land
people of a country - dendron
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tree
branched structure - derma
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III noun - dermatos
that stripped off
skin, hide - diaita
- way of life
- didymos
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twofold, twin (adj)
one of two testes - -didymus or -dymus
- twin fetal monster
- dipsa
- thirst
- diskos
- disc
- dolichos
- long
- dosis
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III noun
a givin, a dose - doteos
- to be given (adj)
- dromos
- a running, a course
- dynamis
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III noun
power, active force -
ech-
echein - to have, hold
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sch-
echein - to get
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isch-
echein - to keep back, suppress
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id-
eidos -
III noun - eideos
that seen, form, shape -
-(o)id
(o is combining vowel)
eidos -
III noun -eideos
like, in shape of - elektron
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amber
electricity - emeein
- to vomit
- emetos
- vomiting (adj)
- enteron
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that within (adj)
intestine - ergon
- work (of art)
- ergasia
- work (as in labour)
- eros
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III noun - erotos
love, lust - erythros
- red
- erythema
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III noun - erythematos
a redness (of the skin) - ethnos
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III noun - ethneos
race, nation - eurys
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III adj
wide, broad - gala
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III noun - galaktos
milk - gamos
- marriage, wedlock
- gametes
- groom or germ cell
- gamete
- bride or germ cell
- ganglion
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a mass of nerve cells
a small hard cyst or swelling - gaster
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III noun - gastros
belly, stomach
the bulging fleshy part of amuscle - ge
- earth
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gen-
gignesthai (pres infin)
genesthai - to become, produced, born
- genesis
- being produced, coming into being, origination (adj)
- genos
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III noun - geneos
breed, race, kind - genea
- stock, descent
- geron
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III noun - gerontos
old man, old person - geras
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III noun - geraos
old age - geusis
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III noun
taste - glaukos
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gray
gleaming, sea-green, greenish-blue - glossa, glotta
- tongue
- glykys, glykeros
- sweet, sugar
- gnathos
- jaw (lower)
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gnonai (aor infin)
gignoskein (pres infin) - to know, judge
- gnosis
- a knowing, knowledge
- gnomon
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one who knows, judge
index - gone
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generation, semen, seed
offspring - gonia
- corner, angle
- gony
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III noun - gonatos
knee, joint - graphein (pres infin)
- to draw, write, inscribe
- gramma
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III noun - grammatos
something written or drawn, mark, record - gymnos
- naked, unclothed or lightly clothed
- gyne
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III noun - gynaikos
woman, pistil of flower - gyros
- circle, ring, turn
- haima
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III noun - haimatos
blood - hairein
- to take, grasp
- kathairesis
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III noun
destruction - hals
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III noun - halos
salt - haptein
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to fasten, fasten upon, attach
to grasp, seize, touch - (h)apsis
- joining, juncture
- haphe
- sense of touch
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hed-, hid-, his-, hiz-
hezesthai (pres infin) - to sit, to cause to sit, to place
- hedra
- sitting place, anus, base or side
- helios
- sun
- helix
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III noun - helikos
something spiral-shaped, coil
snail - helkos
- sore, ulcer
- hemera
- day
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henai
hienai (pres infin)
heinai (aor) - to send going, send, let go
- enema
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III noun - enematos
a sending in -
paresis
(from henai - just the e left) -
a letting go
paralysis - katheter
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that sent or let down
a tube for passage of fluids
(down-send-agent) - hepar
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III noun - hepatos
liver - herpes
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III noun - herpetos
a creeping
spreading blisters - herpeton
- a creeping animal, esp snake or reptile
- heteros
- other, different from
- hidros
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III noun - hidrotos
sweat, perspiration - histos, histion
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tissue, web
(hist- is the root for "stand") - hodos
- road, way, path
- holos
- whole, entire, all
- homalos
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even, level, flat
regular - homos, homoios
- like, the same as, equal
- hormon
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III adj - hormonos
setting in motion, arousing, exciting - hyalos
- glass
- hydor
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III noun - hydatos (no r!)
water, fluid - hygieia
- health, soundness of mind or body
- hygros
- wet, moist, fluid
- hyle
- wood, matter
- hymen
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III noun - hymenos
skin, membrane of vagina - hypnos
- sleep
- agrypnos
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agre- (to hunt for)+ hypnos
sleepless, wakeful - hypsi
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III adj
on high, aloft - hypsos
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III noun - hypseos
height - hystera
- womb, uterus
- iaesthai
- to heal
- iatros
- one who heals, physician
- iatreia
- healing, treatment
- ichthys
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III noun
fish - idios
- one's own, peculiar
- iris
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III noun - iridos
the rainbow, coloured membrane of the eye - is
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III noun - inos
strength
muscle, fibre, tissue - ischion
- hip-joint, hip
- isos
- equal
- isthmos
- a narrow neck or passage
- kainos
- new
- kainotes
- newness, novelty
- kakos
- bad, disordered, abnormal
- kallos
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III noun
beauty - kalos
- beautiful
- kalyx
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III noun - kalykos
covering, shell
circle of sepals around flower - kamptos, kampylos
- bent
- kardia
- heart
- karkinos
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crab
cancer - karpos
- the wrist OR fruit, seed
- karyon
- nut, kernel, nucleus
- katharsis
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III noun
a cleansing, emptying - kausos
- burning heat
- kauma
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III noun
perception of burning heat - kaustos, kautos
- burnt
- kauterion
- searing-iron (instrument that heats)
- kele
- tumor, hernia
- kenos
- empty
- kenosis
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III noun
an emptying - kenteein
- to goad, prick
- kentron
- sharp point, center
- -centesis
- perforation, surgical puncturing
- kephale
- head
- enkephalon
- that within the head, the brain
- keras
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III noun - keratos
horn, horny tissue
cornea - kineein
- to move
- kirrhos
- tawny, orange, yellow
- klaein
- to break, to destroy
- klados, klasma
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klasma - III noun - klasmatos
a break - klon
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III noun - klonos
the piece that is broken off
branch or twig or sprout - klinein
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to bend, turn, slope
make recline, lean, lie down - klinesthai
- to make lie or recline
- klisis
- inclination
- klinikos
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pertaining to bed, pertaining to lying down
clinic - klonos
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confused motion, turmoil
muscular spasm - koilia
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coel- or cel- through Latin
cavity - koilos
- hollow
- koiloma
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III noun - koilomatos
hollow cavity, body cavity - koinos
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coen- or cen- through Latin
common - kokkos
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berry, grain, seed
berry-shaped bacteria - kolla
- glue
- kolon
- lower part of bowels, the colon
- kolpos
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swollen out
bosom, vagina - koma
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III noun - komatos
deep sleep, coma - kome
- hair
- konche
- mussel, shell
- kondylos
- knuckle, joint
- konis
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III noun - konios
dust - konos
- pine cone, cone
- kopros
- dung
- kore
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maiden, doll
pupil (of the eye) - kotyle
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something hollow, socket, cup
first leaf of a sporophyte - kranion
- skull
- krasis
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a mixing, mixture
temperament - kreas
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III noun - kreatos
flesh
muscle tissue - krinein
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to separate, to judge
to distinguish, decide
to emit, secrete - krisis
- point of decision or judgment
- krotos
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a striking, a beat
pulse-beat - krotesis
- a knocking, clapping
- kryos, krymos
- ice-cold, frost
- krystallos
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clear ice
crystal - kryptos
- hidden