palomar's Ancient Greek words

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• ACRONYCALadjectiveAncient Greek1 finderRising at sunset and setting at sunrise.
• APOTROPAICadjectiveAncient Greek7 findersIntended to ward off evil.
• CALOTYPEnounAncient Greek14 findersA talbotype.
• DIPHYODONTadjectiveAncient Greek14 findersHaving two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other.
• EMPLASTERnounAncient Greek3 findersA plaster.
• ETYMONnounAncient Greek10 findersThe original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a f
• EUPHRASYnounAncient Greek13 findersThe eyebright, Euphrasia officinalis.
• EUTHERIANadjectiveAncient Greek9 findersBelonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.
• HAPTICadjectiveAncient Greek454 findersOf or relating to the sense of touch.
• HEURISTICadjectiveAncient Greek374 findersThat employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect; either not following or derived from any theory, or based on an advisedly oversimplified one.
• HEXAMEROUSadjectiveAncient Greek21 findersIn six parts; occurring in sixes.
• HEXAPLAnounAncient Greek5 findersA text presented in six parallel versions, especially the version of the Old Testament presented in such a fashion by Origen.
• HEXAPODYnounAncient Greek6 findersA verse or measure of six metrical feet.
• HYDROPICadjectiveAncient Greek32 findersDropsical; pertaining to or suffering from dropsy (edema).
• LOGODAEDALYnounAncient Greek5 findersCleverness or skill in the coining of new words.
• MYRISTICadjectiveAncient Greek10 findersPertaining to nutmeg.
• NEOPHYTEnounAncient Greek140 findersA beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
• OMPHALOIDadjectiveAncient Greek7 findersShaped like a navel.
• OPSIMATHnounAncient Greek48 findersA person who learns late in life.
• PAREIDOLIAnounAncient Greek56 findersThe tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in
• PHACOIDadjectiveAncient Greek13 findersResembling a lentil or lens; lenticular.
• PHLOGISTONnounAncient Greek210 findersThe hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning.
• PHYSIOLOGYnounAncient Greek41 findersA branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
• PYXIDIUMnounAncient Greek15 findersA seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
• RHOEADINEnounAncient Greek12 findersAny of a group of benzazepine alkaloids found in the poppy.
• RHOPALICadjectiveAncient Greek6 findersHaving each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.
• SPHYGMICadjectiveAncient Greek53 findersOf or pertaining to the circulatory pulse.
• STYGIANadjectiveAncient Greek370 findersAlternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).
• SYNAPHEAnounAncient Greek4 findersThe metrical continuity between one colon and another.
• SYNECHIAnounAncient Greek14 findersAn eye condition in which the iris adheres either to the cornea (anterior synechia) or to the lens (posterior synechia).
• TETRAPTOTEnounAncient Greek6 findersA noun that has four cases.
• TRITAGONISTnounAncient Greek9 findersIn Greek drama, the actor who played the third role (after the protagonist and deuteragonist)
• TYCHISMnounAncient Greek12 findersA theory suggesting that absolute chance, or indeterminism, is a real factor operative in the universe.
• URANISMnounAncient Greek8 findersHomosexuality.
• XENOTIMEnounAncient Greek21 findersA yellow-brown mineral, yttrium phosphate (YPO4)
• XERASIAnounAncient Greek28 findersDryness and brittleness of the hair.

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