esper's Ancient Greek words

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• APHORISTICadjectiveAncient Greek86 findersOf, relating to, or containing aphorisms, epigrams, or maxims; gnomic.
• ASTERnounAncient Greek81 findersAny of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
• BACCHANTnounAncient Greek26 findersA priest of Bacchus.
• BOLUSnounAncient Greek421 findersA round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
• DACTYLnounAncient Greek487 findersA metrical foot of three syllables of the shape | – ⏖ |:
• DIPTYCHnounAncient Greek235 findersA writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
• GNOMICadjectiveAncient Greek381 findersOf, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
• HAPTICadjectiveAncient Greek461 findersOf or relating to the sense of touch.
• LYCANTHROPEnounAncient Greek306 findersA werewolf.
• PAROCHIALadjectiveAncient Greek128 findersPertaining to a parish.
• PEDAGOGYnounAncient Greek32 findersThe profession of teaching.
• PYRETICadjectiveAncient Greek87 findersCaused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever.
• SARDONICadjectiveAncient Greek293 findersScornfully mocking or cynical.
• STYGIANadjectiveAncient Greek393 findersAlternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).
• THRENODYnounAncient Greek127 findersA song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.

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