Category:English terms calqued from Ancient Greek

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. navel-gazing
  2. Gemini
  3. self-sufficient
  4. lotus-eater
  5. the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
  6. wheel-eyed
  7. wine-dark
  8. cloud-cuckoo-land
  9. from the dead
  10. flesh glue
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. childlover
  2. Hellenistic Greek
  3. fire and brimstone
  4. common sense
  5. loosestrife
  6. speak in tongues
  7. salt of the earth
  8. one swallow does not a summer make
  9. childlove
  10. oxtongue

English terms that were calqued from Ancient Greek, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of Ancient Greek terms.

To categorize a term into this category, use {{cal|en|grc|source_term}} (or {{clq|...}} or {{calque|...}}, using the same syntax), where source_term is the source-language term that the term in question was borrowed from.


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