The enigmatic inscription on a bronze sphinx statue, unearthed in the early 19th century, has…
Tag: Greek alphabet
In the grand tapestry of world languages and scripts, one stands out as a symbol of enduring beauty and historical significance – the Greek alphabet. With its roots tracing back over two millennia, this script has left an indelible mark on the world, from the cradle of democracy to the frontiers of modern science and mathematics.
Panic reigned on Twitter on Sunday night when its owner, Elon Mus , wrote the…
A LIST of baby names has divided the internet after one Redditor revealed her best…
Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It is well-known that languages all across the globe – including English – have borrowed a myriad of words, phrases and expressions from Greek. Here is a short list of English words that are used daily by English speakers that are fully taken from the Greek language.
‘Omicron’ comes from Middle English, from Greek o mikron, literally meaning ‘small o’. It was…
Stefanos Tsitsipas is ranked the fourth-best men’s tennis player in the world. Omicron is a…
While choosing a name for the variants of SARS-CoV2, the World Health Organisation has so…
Omicron can trace its roots as a word back to Ancient Greece. Specifically, the word…
Through Ancient Greek history, our ancestors from pre-Homeric to Homeric times had invented the Ancient Greek language, which is the treasury and genesis to all mankind and from the foundation of the language derived, most other languages were born.
The quest to assign a letter of the Greek alphabet to the newly identified COVID-19 variant ‘B.1.1.529′ that has spread in South Africa has proven that “all pandemics are inherently political” as a source from the World Health Organisation confirms that the Greek letters Nu and Xi have been deliberately avoided.
Virologists are rushing to learn more about a variant of the Covid-19 virus that was…
In a bid to distance itself from a series of embarrassing scandals, Facebook renames itself ‘Meta’. Like so many other things, we have the ancient Greeks to thank for the word ‘meta’, which was a word they used to mean “after” or “beyond.”
Japanese is said to be one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn. Little wonder that Terumi Kai is creating a Greek media storm as the women who is teaching Japanese to Greek language speakers in as little as two months.
There is one obvious problem that some may see associated with this ‘solution’ which calls for using the letters of the Greek alphabet to name all of the variants of the global pandemic. The “China virus” as Trump so famously, and many say, so inappropriately named it, is not Greek either.
Covid-19 variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet, in a bid…
Greek is ranked as the richest language in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. It is well-known that languages all across the globe – including English – have borrowed a myriad of words, phrases and expressions from Greek. Here is a short list of English words that are used daily by English speakers that are fully taken from the Greek language.
A special World Meteorological Organisation committee on Wednesday decided to discontinue using the Greek alphabet…
September is the peak time of the Atlantic Hurricane season when most tropical activity occurs…
The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopios Pavlopoulos bestowed Commander of the Order of Honour medals…
