It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

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Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

The order Anura ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and oura, tail ) comprises the frogs and toads.

The order Gymnophiona ( from the Greek, gymnos and ophis meaning " naked serpent ") or Apoda ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and poda, legs ) comprise the caecilians.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

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Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

Over several centuries, numerous Ancient Greek city states were established on the coasts of Anatolia.

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced when short and when long.

In the Attic-Ionic dialect of Ancient Greek, long alpha fronted to ( eta ).

Privative a is the Ancient Greek prefix ἀ-or ἀν-a -, an -, added to words to negate them.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

The word Anaasází is Navajo for " Ancient Ones " or " Ancient Enemy ".

" The Ancient Greek word krima ( κρίμα ), from which the Latin cognate derives, typically referred to an intellectual mistake or an offense against the community, rather than a private or moral wrong.

The word crystal is derived from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning both “ ice ” and “ rock crystal ”, from (), " icy cold, frost ".

On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.

The term clone is derived from the Ancient Greek word κλών ( klōn, “ twig ”), referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.

The word cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ( kaktos ), a name originally used for a spiny plant whose identity is not certain.

The word " corona " itself derived from the Latin, meaning crown, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κορώνη ( korōnē ) meaning " garland " or " wreath ".

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

Ancient Greek tended to be verb-final, while neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO.

This may lead to more of a focus on etiquette than on ethics as understood in Western civilization, leading some in Western civilizations to question why the word ethos was adapted from Ancient Greek with such vast differences in cultural norms.

( The word history — from the Ancient Greek ιστορία, or istoria, meaning " a learning or knowing by inquiry "— is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun his.

This word may derive from the Ancient Greek erimos meaning " desert ".

The English word Iberia was adapted from the use of the Ancient Greek word Ιβηρία ( Ibēría ) by the Greek geographers under the Roman Empire to refer to what is known today in English as the Iberian Peninsula.

The word ultimately derives from the Ancient Egyptian âb, âbu " elephant ", through the Latin ebor-or ebur.

Kallistēi is the word of the Ancient Greek language inscribed on the Golden Apple of Discord by Eris.

The adjective renal, meaning related to the kidney, is from the Latin rēnēs, meaning kidneys ; the prefix nephro-is from the Ancient Greek word for kidney, nephros ( νεφρός ).

In some societies, such as those of Ancient Egypt and others, brother – sister, father – daughter, and mother – son, cousin-cousin, uncle-niece, aunt-nephew, and other permutations of relations were practiced among royalty as a means of perpetuating the royal lineage.

The taboo against incest in Ancient Rome is demonstrated by the fact that politicians would use charges of incest ( often false charges ) as insults and means of political disenfranchisement.

According to Hippocrates, melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which means ' black bile ', from Ancient Greek μέλας ( melas ), " dark, black ", + χολή ( kholé ), " bile "; a person whose constitution tended to have a preponderance of black bile had a melancholic disposition.

Assyrians of the Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Assyrian Church of the East observe a fast called Ba ' uta d-Ninwe or Bo ' utho d-Ninwe ( ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ ) which means Nineveh's Wish.

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

The word " diabetes " ( or ) comes from Latin diabētēs, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek διαβήτης ( diabētēs ) which literally means “ a passer through ; a siphon ”.

The term tuna derives from Latin thunnus and from Ancient Greek θύννος or thunnos, from θύνω or thunō, which means, " I rush, dart along ".

The name " Cletus " in Ancient Greek means " one who has been called ", and " Anacletus " means " one who has been called back ".

Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline.

Onobrychis means " devoured by donkeys ", from Ancient Greek ónos ( ὄνος, " donkey ") and brýkein ( βρύκειν, " to eat greedily ").

The prefix " petro -" is an arbitrary abbreviation of the word " petroleum "; since " petro -" is Ancient Greek for " rock " and " oleum " means " oil ".

His second name in Ancient Greek means " Sun "; this was the counterpart of his twin sister ’ s second name Selene, meaning " Moon ".

The scientific name is Latinized Ancient Greek and means " wing fruit ", referring to the unusual shape of the seed pods in this genus.

Her name is derived from the Ancient Greek word: " θεμιστος " which means " belonging to the law ," or " belonging to the customs.

Antiochus V, Ancient Greek | Greek inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY means " of king Antiochus "

Sekhmet's name comes from the Ancient Egyptian word " sekhem " which means " powerful one.

The name Petsuchos means " son of Sobek ", as the Ancient Egyptian word " pet " has a meaning of " son " or " offspring ".

The notion of a universal principle of natural order is by no means unique to the Vedas, and Ṛta has been compared to similar ideas in other cultures, such as Ma ' at in Ancient Egyptian religion, Moira and the Logos in Greek paganism, and the Tao.

Ancient sources record dates in the mid-sixth centuryEusebius dates Theognis in the 58th Olympiad ( 548 – 45 BC ), Suda the 59th Olympiad ( 544 – 41 BC ) and Chronicon Paschale the 57th Olympiad ( 552 – 49 BC ) yet it is not clear for example whether Suda in this case means a date of birth or some other significant event in the poet's life and, moreover, all three sources could have derived their dates from lines 773 – 82 under the assumption that these refer to Harpagus's attack on Ionia in the reign of Cyrus The Great.