Category:Ancient Greek terms by etymology

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Ancient Greek terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Ancient Greek apocopic forms: Ancient Greek words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:Ancient Greek back-formations: Ancient Greek terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Ancient Greek blends: Ancient Greek terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Ancient Greek borrowed terms: Ancient Greek terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Ancient Greek calques: Ancient Greek calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Ancient Greek compound terms: Ancient Greek terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Ancient Greek doublets: Ancient Greek terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
• Category:Ancient Greek ellipses: Ancient Greek terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Ancient Greek eponyms: Ancient Greek terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Ancient Greek haplological words: Ancient Greek words that underwent haplology: thus, their origin involved a loss or omission of a repeated sequence of sounds.
• Category:Ancient Greek inherited terms: Ancient Greek terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms by interfix: Ancient Greek terms categorized by their interfixes.
• Category:Ancient Greek metonyms: Ancient Greek terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
• Category:Ancient Greek nonce terms: Ancient Greek terms that have been invented for a single occasion.
• Category:Ancient Greek onomatopoeias: Ancient Greek terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms by prefix: Ancient Greek terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Ancient Greek rebracketings: Ancient Greek terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
• Category:Ancient Greek reconstructed terms: Ancient Greek terms that are not directly attested, but have been reconstructed through other evidence.
• Category:Ancient Greek retronyms: Ancient Greek terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
• Category:Ancient Greek semantic loans: Ancient Greek semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms by suffix: Ancient Greek terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms derived from other languages: Ancient Greek terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Ancient Greek twice-borrowed terms: Ancient Greek terms that were borrowed from another language that originally borrowed the term from Ancient Greek.
• Category:Ancient Greek univerbations: Ancient Greek terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies: Ancient Greek terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.