Category:English terms calqued from Ancient Greek

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. Hot Gates
  2. physician, heal thyself
  3. golden eagle
  4. navel-gazing
  5. Gemini
  6. self-sufficient
  7. lotus-eater
  8. the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
  9. wheel-eyed
  10. wine-dark
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. Hellenistic Greek
  2. well begun is half done
  3. oxtongue
  4. Pythian Apollo
  5. cloud-cuckoo-land
  6. wolfsbane
  7. loosestrife
  8. speak in tongues
  9. one swallow does not a summer make
  10. Jesus wept

English terms that were calqued from Ancient Greek, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Ancient Greek terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|grc|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the Ancient Greek term that the term in question was borrowed from.


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