Podcasts by Your Greek Word On A Sunday
Bite size podcast. Every Sunday, Greek words used in the English language. Travelling words connecting cultures.
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Episode 161: Elegy from 2022-02-20T00:00
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An ??????? in ancient Greece was a religious poem made from two different verses. An hexameter and a pentameter. The poems escaped religion and started getting thematically...
Episode 160: Melody from 2022-02-13T00:00
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Music is primarily comprised of three parts, ???????/Harmony, ?????/Rhythm and ???????. That last one is a combined word from ?????(melos) meaning 'part' and ??? (ode) mea...
Episode 159: Rhinoceros from 2022-02-06T00:00
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??? (Rhis) in ancient Greek (and as a medical term, in modern Greek too) menas 'nose'. ????? (Keras) means 'horn' . Since in Greek 'I' is pronounced as 'E' and the Greek ...
Episode 158: Analysis from 2022-01-30T00:00
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??? (ana) in Greek, is both a preposition and a prefix depending on its use and one of its meanings is 'again'-'going over something'. ??? (Lyo) is a verb and it mean...
Episode 157: Mystic from 2022-01-23T00:00
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??? (meo) is an ancient Greek verb and it means I initiate someone into a religion, I induct. The ceremony for that induction is called a ????????? (mystirion). The ...
Episode 156: Syringe from 2022-01-16T00:00
Before we start today, i'd like to reassure you that, there's nothing wrong with your podcast platform or this podcast. Human error however, made the episode supposed to be released last week, rele...
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Episode 154: Symposium from 2022-01-02T00:00
SYMPOSIUM/????????
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Happy New Year everyone! Today, we're going to talk about parties.The preposition '???' means with/together. ???? means 'drink'. In ancient Greec...
Episode 153: Acme from 2021-12-26T00:00
ACME/????
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With the winter solstice right behind us, New Year's eve coming up and this being the last episode of the year, I couldn't think of a better word. ???? i...
Episode 155: Decade from 2021-12-26T00:00
DECADE/?????
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???? (Deka) in both ancient and modern Greek means, ten (so does Dasa in Sanskrit by the way). ????? (dekas) means a group of ten ot ten parts of somet...
Episode 152: Carols from 2021-12-19T00:00
CAROLS/?????
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????? (choros) in both modern and ancient Greek, means Dance. ????? (aulus) means pan-pipe or flute. In Ancient Greece there was a festival in honour o...
Episode 151: Symptom from 2021-12-12T00:00
SYMPTOM/????????
??? (syn) is a preposition and it means 'with' . ????? (Pipto)is an ancient Greek verb ,still in use today, and one of its meanings is 'I occur'. The combined infinitive i...
Episode 150: Mathematics from 2021-12-05T00:00
MATHEMATICS/??????????
??????? (Manthano) in ancient Greek and ??????? (Matheno) in modern, means 'I learn'. ????? (techne) means 'art' but also 'craft'. Around 600BC a man called ????? (Thale...
Episode 149: Hyper from 2021-11-28T00:00
HYPER/????
Words transitioning from the Greek Alphabet to the Latin one, usually get a do-over in both spelling and pronunciation. Thankfully in most of them, you can still detect similari...
Episode 148: Panic from 2021-11-21T00:00
PANIC/???????
Greek Myths are so complex and -more often than not- linked to each other that it's very difficult to focus on one story. Today's myth is one of those and I deliberately leave out...
Episode 48: Phonograph /Gramophone from 2019-04-14T08:59:59
PHONOGRAPH/??????????
GRAMOPHONE/??????????
Episode 10: Narcissus & Echo from 2018-03-10T21:27:49
Narcissus & Echo/????????? & ???
Narcissism/????????????