Appendix talk:Ancient Greek words with English derivatives

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I have moved the page to "Appendix:Ancient Greek words with English derivatives", a title that accurately describes the scope of the page. --Dan Polansky 07:15, 29 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Agreed. This title is more appropriate. There may well be justification for an appendix on Ancient Greek-English relations, but this is certainly not it. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 07:58, 29 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Maintain this page manually??

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This page is apparently maintained manually, that is, it doesn't automatically include every word in wiktionary with a Greek etymology. That seems like a recipe for radical incompleteness. And sure enough, the page is extremely incomplete.

It's also not clear what the editorial standards are for this page. Is it only ancient Greek words which have been borrowed directly from Greek by learned authors that count? Or should it also words borrowed indirectly, whose English form doesn't "look Greek", like anthem, frantic, butter, bishop, balm, priest, church, blame, box, choir, trivet, slander, oil, olive, etc.? (cf. wikipedia:English words of Greek origin)? --Macrakis (talk) 21:39, 31 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Delete

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Beautiful buttocks

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Looks like a nice page, but damn near everything I tried looking up was missing (and, given the nature of the page, this is not one that I can boldly edit myself). I started with my favourite Greek word, καλλιτέχνη = good technique = artist ... no cali (calisthenics, callipygean), no techne (technology). Then, Γλώσσα = language = glossary (nope). Τόπος = place = topography (nope). Finally, on the 5th attempt, success with χρόνια ... Scarabocchio (talk) 06:34, 11 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

RFD discussion: July 2017–April 2018

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Poorly maintained, unmanageable, redundant with Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek. --Barytonesis (talk) 00:08, 26 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Also, this particular list is much better than Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek because it shows translations! Please maintain and expand this list, instead of deleting it! --80.187.104.73 21:50, 17 November 2017 (UTC)Reply