The ancient greek word for cat is ailouros which sounds so much more sophisticated than cat ailouros has a certain beauty a captivating allure.
Attic greek word for queen.
Woman female 412 bce euripides helen 329.
Poppleton 1834 lexicon to herodotus by enoch powell 1938.
Too many syllables perhaps.
Greek english word list containing about 1000 most common greek words so arranged as to be most easily learned and remembered by robert baird 1893 vocabulaire classique.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
Ancient greek words suffixed with ια.
πᾶσα γυνὴ χόλος ἐστὶν ἔχει δ ἀγαθὰς δύο ὥρας τὴν μίαν ἐν.
When greek speakers were being formal or polite they would use the marker ὦ like the english o brother to signal the vocative case but it is not necessary and ὦ is often best left untranslated in english.
Ancient greek speakers tended to avoid pronouncing two different vowel sounds in a row.
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Princess queen noble woman.
A vocabulary of the attic language.
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Gunaîka gàr dḕ sumponeîn gunaikì khrḗ.
Ancient and modern greek english french vocabulary by topics by g.
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So far she has not caught on.
A woman ought to help a woman.
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Two vowels in a row.
I too am beautiful and alluring so i am trying to convince she of little talent to refer to me as an ailouros.
γυναῖκα γὰρ δὴ συμπονεῖν γυναικὶ χρή.
Most often the nominative forms of nouns and adjectives double as vocative forms.