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Greek (Greek: ελληνική γλώσσα or semply ελληνικά — "Hellenic") haes a documentit history o 3,400 year, the langest o ony single naitural leid in the Indo-European leid faimily. It is ane o the earliest attestit Indo-European leids an aw, wi fragmentary records in Mycenaean datin back tae the 15t or 14t century BC, makkin ...
- 13.4 million (2012)
- [eliniˈka]
Greek Sign Leid (Ελληνική νοηματική γλώσσα, Ellenika Normatikòn Glòussa, ΕΝΓ) is the sign leid uised in the Greece an is the first or preferred leid o deif fowk in the UE; There are 634,600 Deif adults in the UE who uise ENG plus an estimatit children. The leid makes uise o space an involves movement o the hands ...
Today, the individual Indo-European languages with the most native speakers are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi–Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, French and German each with over 100 million native speakers; many others are small and in danger of extinction. In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion people) speaks an Indo ...
- † indicates this branch of the language family is extinct
- Proto-Indo-European
- One of the world's primary language families
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The Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon (LSJ) is perhaps the best known Ancient Greek-English dictionary. Here you can find a wiki implementation aiming to massively improve upon the dictionary resources in numerous ways like adding missing translations and expanding lexicographical shorthandinto clarity among others. Different types of tra...
In the above comparison you can see the differences in the LSJ.gr entry for βραχυκατάληκτος before (Perseus version) and after editing. Note how the shorthand has been expanded (even standard Latin abbreviations are made transparent, i.e. f.l. and s.v. are linked) and how new translations have been added (i.e. βραχυκαταλήκτως = with the final sylla...
Ancient Greek ⇄ English (LSJ ≈130,000 terms; Woodhouse digitized and edited is available for English to Ancient Greek—38,000+ terms—as well as a reversed version from Ancient Greek into English—≈17...Ancient Greek ⇄ Spanish (reversal based on DGE—63,000+ Ancient Greek to Spanish terms; ≈82,000Spanish to Ancient Greek terms)Ancient Greek ⇄ Dutch (reversal based on Mijnwoordenboek—≈17,000 Ancient Greek to Dutch terms; 22,000+Dutch to Ancient Greek terms)Ancient Greek ⇄ Russian (reversal based on Dvoretsky's dictionary—≈70,000terms per direction)Ancient Greek 🠒 French (Bailly abrégé—56,755terms; Bailly 2021 and French to Ancient Greek under preparation)Ancient Greek 🠒 German (Wilhelm Pape—105,019terms; German to Ancient Greek under preparation)Ancient Greek 🠒 Chinese(5,934 terms)Ancient Greek 🠒 Modern Greek3/2023: 10,000 pages with Multilingual Translationssection10/2022: 5,000 pages with Multilingual Translations section (containing from 5 to 500 languages), i.e. μύωψ, ἀποθνήσκω, ἀνίκητος, περισσός, κλέπτης, κλέπτω, σύστασις(note the synonymy for both Engl...10/2021:Double click on any word to look it up.5/2021: Bill Berg, the site's classics consultant, has passed awayMain page; Commonty Yett; Mercat Cross; Recent chynges; Wale page allevolie; Help; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Written form of Greek words in English. Many Greek words, especially those borrowed through the literary tradition, are recognizable as such from their spelling. Latin had standard orthographies for Greek borrowings, including, but not limited to: Greek υ was written as 'y' η as 'e' χ as 'ch' φ as 'ph' κ as 'c' rough breathings as 'h'
LSJ:GreekEnglishLexicon - Ancient Greek (LSJ) Ancient Modern. LSJ:GreekEnglishLexicon. Project page. A Greek–English Lexicon is a standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language. Contents. 1 Liddell and Scott's lexicon. 2 Condensed editions. 3 The Supplement. 4 Electronic editions. 5 Translations. 6 External links.
