Ben K's Ancient Greek words

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• ADIABATICadjectiveAncient Greek25 findersWithout gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
• AGOGEnounAncient Greek3 findersIn ancient Greek music, tempo or pace; rhythmical movement.
• AILUROPHILEnounAncient Greek9 findersA person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover.
• ANTIPHONnounAncient Greek23 findersA devotional chant; a piece of music sung responsively.
• APOTHECIUMnounAncient Greek19 findersA type of fructification of some ascomycete fungi, forming cyst structures of various shapes. Often the fungal components of lichens have this sort of fertile structure.
• BRONCHIUMnounAncient Greek5 findersA bronchial tube; a subdivision of the bronchus.
• CENOBITEnounAncient Greek41 findersA new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
• CHRONAXIEnounAncient Greek10 findersThe minimum time over which an electric current must be applied in order to stimulate a muscle fiber or nerve cell.
• CHTHONIANadjectiveAncient Greek24 findersPertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.
• DICHOGAMYnounAncient Greek13 findersThe condition in which an organism changes sex during its lifetime.
• EPISIOTOMYnounAncient Greek68 findersA surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.
• EPIZOOTICnounAncient Greek10 findersAn occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.
• FLORILEGIUMnounAncient Greek6 findersA collection of flowers.
• HEXAPODYnounAncient Greek6 findersA verse or measure of six metrical feet.
• IOTACISMnounAncient Greek12 findersPronunciation of another vowel or diphthong as [i], or a vowel shift resulting in such pronunciation, especially in Greek.
• LEXICOLOGYnounAncient Greek8 findersThe part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
• LOGAOEDICadjectiveAncient Greek5 findersOf any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.
• OMOPHAGICadjectiveAncient Greek12 findersEating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food.
• PARADIGMATICadjectiveAncient Greek58 findersOf or pertaining to a paradigm.
• PLYOMETRICSnounAncient Greek100 findersA form of exercise that involves the rapid stretching and contracting of muscles to develop muscular power.
• PROPYLAEUMnounAncient Greek3 findersA vestibule or entrance, to a temple.
• PYXIDIUMnounAncient Greek15 findersA seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
• UROPYGIUMnounAncient Greek4 findersThe posterior part of a bird's body from which the tailfeathers grow.
• VIRAEMIAnounAncient Greek11 findersThe condition or disease of having a virus in the bloodstream.

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