Category:Greek terms by etymology
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Greek terms categorized by their etymologies.
- Category:Greek aphetic forms: Greek words that underwent aphesis, meaning their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their beginning.
- Category:Greek apocopic forms: Greek words that underwent apocope, thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
- Category:Greek back-formations: Greek terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
- Category:Greek blends: Greek terms formed by combinations of other words.
- Category:Greek borrowed terms: Greek terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
- Category:Greek calques: Greek calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
- Category:Greek compound terms: Greek terms composed of two or more stems.
- Category:Greek doublets: 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:Greek ellipses: Greek terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
- Category:Greek eponyms: Greek terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
- Category:Greek genericized trademarks: Greek terms that originate from trademarks, brands and company names which have become genericized; that is, fallen into common usage in the target market's vernacular, even when referring to other competing brands.
- Category:Greek inherited terms: Greek terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
- Category:Greek terms by interfix: Greek terms categorized by their interfixes.
- Category:Greek metonyms: 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:Greek neologisms: Greek terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
- Category:Greek onomatopoeias: Greek terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
- Category:Greek terms by prefix: Greek terms categorized by their prefixes.
- Category:Greek rebracketings: Greek terms that have interacted with another word in such a way that the boundary between the words has been modified.
- Category:Greek reduplications: Greek terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
- Category:Greek retronyms: Greek terms that serve as new unique names for older objects or concepts whose previous names became ambiguous.
- Category:Greek semantic loans: Greek semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
- Category:Greek terms by suffix: Greek terms categorized by their suffixes.
- Category:Greek terms attributed to a specific source: Greek terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
- Category:Greek terms derived from other languages: Greek terms that originate from other languages.
- Category:Greek univerbations: Greek terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
- Category:Greek terms with unknown etymologies: Greek terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.
Subcategories
This category has the following 32 subcategories, out of 32 total.
A
- Greek aphetic forms (0 c, 1 e)
- Greek apocopic forms (0 c, 2 e)
B
- Greek back-formations (0 c, 22 e)
- Greek blends (0 c, 3 e)
C
D
- Greek doublets (0 c, 184 e)
E
- Greek ellipses (0 c, 9 e)
- Greek eponyms (0 c, 5 e)
G
- Greek genericized trademarks (0 c, 2 e)
I
M
- Greek metonyms (0 c, 4 e)
N
- Greek neologisms (0 c, 23 e)
O
- Greek onomatopoeias (0 c, 32 e)
P
R
- Greek rebracketings (0 c, 3 e)
- Greek reduplications (0 c, 1 e)
- Greek retronyms (0 c, 2 e)
S
T
- Greek terms borrowed back into Greek (0 c, 0 e)
U
- Greek univerbations (0 c, 11 e)
- Greek terms with unknown etymologies (0 c, 44 e)