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Wisdom is referred to as "she" - or even as "Lady Wisdom" - because the Greek word for wisdom is feminine); — Bart D. Ehrman

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. — Peggy Noonan

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters. — Edith Hamilton

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. — Ann Brashares

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. — C.P. Scott

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ... — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Greek meaning of the word "blessed" is "supreme happiness." [see Matthew 5:3-5] — Eric Ludy

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject. — Gladys Pyle

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine." — Jon Gordon

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate. — Donna Tartt

I wouldn't expect you to know what the word honor means anyway. But when I make a pledge, I uphold it. — Amanda Carlson

(It is interesting that the words "cosmos" and "cosmetic" have the same root, the Greek word for "adornment" or "arrangement.") — Jim Holt

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us." — Ken Burns

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word. — Marshall McLuhan

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. — George Bernard Shaw

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word to train. — Gary Chapman

The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul. — Gunther Hauk

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one. — Peter Straub

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. — Gilbert Murray

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means "anointed." It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated "messiah." When Jesus is called — R.C. Sproul

The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep! — Billy Crystal

The word which denotes the act of baptizing, according to the usage of Greek writers, uniformly signifies or implies immersion. — Adoniram Judson

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey

Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage. — James Carroll

The Greek word for "rooster" is built from combined parts that mean "getter out of bed". — J.C. McKeown

The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea. — Eric H. Borneman

The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed. — H. Spencer Lewis