Category:Greek terms by etymology

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.

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