Saint Jerome later translated the Greek phrase as piscis granda in his Latin Vulgate, and as cetus in.

In his 1534 translation, William Tyndale translated the phrase in Jonah 2: 1 as " greate fyshe ," and he translated the word ketos ( Greek ) or cetus ( Latin ) in as " whale ".

The modern Turkish name İstanbul derives from the Greek phrase eis tin polin ( εις την πόλιν ), meaning " in the City " or " to the City ".

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

The Hebrew title is taken from the opening phrase Eleh ha-devarim, " These are the words ..."; the English title is from a Greek mis-translation of the Hebrew phrase mishneh ha-torah ha-zoth, " a copy of this law ", in, as to deuteronomion touto-" this second law ".

Brubaker argues that the initial expansion of the use of the phrase extended it to other, similar cases, such as the Armenian and Greek diasporas.

Alexander the Great probably crowned himself shahanshah after conquering Persia, bringing the phrase basileus toon basileoon to Greek.

Medieval Greek is a cover phrase for a whole continuum of different speech and writing styles, ranging from vernacular continuations of spoken Koine that were already approaching Modern Greek in many respects, to highly learned forms imitating classical Attic.

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

The phrase " Ηρακλείς του στέμματος " (" Defenders of the Crown ") has pejorative connotations (" chief henchmen ") in Greek.

Suetonius reports that others have said Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase "" ( transliterated as " Kai su, teknon?

" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.

Another example of the textual arguments against the Testimonium is that it uses the Greek term poietes to mean " doer " ( as part of the phrase " doer of wonderful works ") but elsewhere in his works, Josephus only uses the term poietes to mean " poet ," whereas this use of " poietes " seems consistent with the Greek of Eusebius.

Van Voorst states that it is hard to imagine that the phrase " receive the truth with pleasure " used in the Testimonium is the work of a Christian interpolator, for Christian writers generally avoid the use of the word " pleasure ( ηδονή in Greek ) in a positive sense due to its association with hedonism.

" The Septuagint translates this phrase into Greek as ketos megas ( κητος μεγας ).

In his 1534 translation, William Tyndale translated the phrase in Jonah 2: 1 as " greate fyshe " and he translated the word ketos ( Greek ) or cetus ( Latin ) in Matthew 12: 40 as " whale ".

In English translations of the New Testament, the phrase " Jesus of Nazareth " appears seventeen times whereas the Greek has the form " Jesus the Nazarēnos " or " Jesus the Nazōraios.

The Greek word papyros has no known relationship to any Egyptian word or phrase.

J. N. Hough suggests that Plautus ’ s use of Greek is for artistic purposes and not simply because a Latin phrase will not fit the meter.

The word " apoptosis " () is used in Greek to describe the " dropping off " or " falling off " of petals from flowers, or leaves from trees.

The term is derived from the Greek word anemos, meaning wind, and is used to describe any airspeed measurement instrument used in meteorology or aerodynamics.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa ), was originally used to describe a Roman public building ( as in Greece, mainly a tribunal ), usually located in the forum of a Roman town.

The word horologia ( from the Greek ὡρα, hour, and λέγειν, to tell ) was used to describe all these devices, but the use of this word ( still used in several Romance languages ) for all timekeepers conceals from us the true nature of the mechanisms.

The Greeks use the word Anagignoskomena ( Ἀναγιγνωσκόμενα " readable, worthy to be read ") to describe the books of the Greek Septuagint that are not present in the Hebrew Tanakh.

Using the word apocrypha ( Greek: hidden away ) to describe texts, although not necessarily pejorative, implies to some people that the writings in question should not be included in the canon of the Bible.

This is similar to the other Greek titles basileus and autokrator, which, along with despot, have been used at various times to describe everything from a local chieftain to a simple ruler, king or emperor.

In 1877, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne ( 1837 – 1900 ) first used the term enzyme, which comes from Greek ενζυμον, " in leaven ", to describe this process.

Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle, and other early Greek philosophers.

The English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

The actual Celtic tribal nations which settled are not known as the particular group of Gauls were already highly Hellenized and used the Greek word of Gaul to describe themselves.

The Books of the Maccabees describe the uprising and the end of Greek rule.

When combined with the Greek άγω ( ago ) to " lead ," the construed meaning is " to lead the entertainer ” and the transliteration from the Greek leads to the word Diaskagogy di • as • ka • go • gy-goj-ee which could be used to describe Preschool education.

He is also responsible for the first known use of the Greek word katholikos ( καθολικός ), meaning " universal ", " complete " and " whole " to describe the church, writing:

However, scholar Helmut Koester has pointed out the Greek title " Memorabilia " was not applied to Xenophon's work until the Middle Ages, and it is more likely apomnemoneumata was used to describe the oral transmission of the sayings of Jesus in early Christianity.

The grammarian Dionysius Thrax used the Greek word ὑγρος ( hygros, " moist ") to describe the phonemes of classical Greek.

The term " protein " to describe these molecules was proposed by Mulder's associate Berzelius ; protein is derived from the Greek word πρωτεῖος ( proteios ), meaning " primary ", " in the lead ", or " standing in front ".

* epiphany " appearing ": The Greek word epiphaneia was often used by Greeks to describe the glorious manifestation of the gods, and by the Romans as a title for the Emperor.

Greek writers about India such as Megasthenes and Arrian describe many of the states having republican governments akin to those of Greece.

The Greek historian Polybius, writing more than a century before Livy, became one of the first to describe the emergence of the Roman Empire.

In Christian terminology, docetism ( from the Greek dokein ( to seem ) / dókēsis ( apparition, phantom ), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as " the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality.

As a language evolves, cases can merge ( for instance in Ancient Greek genitive and ablative have merged as genitive ), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.

Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.

Dissimilation is usually a sporadic phenomenon, but Grassmann's Law ( Sanskrit and Greek ) is an example of a systematic dissimilation.

Reggio has commonly used popular nicknames: The " city of Bronzes ", for the Riace bronzes which are testimonials of its Greek origins ; the " city of bergamot ", which is exclusively cultivated in the region ; and the " city of Fatamorgana ", an optical phenomenon visible in Italy only from the Reggio seaside.

Later on, a distinction was made between the stigmergic phenomenon, which is specific to the guidance of additional work, and the more general, non-work specific incitation, for which the term sematectonic communication was coined by E. O. Wilson, from the Greek words σῆμα sema " sign, token ", and τέκτων tecton " craftsman, builder ": " There is a need for a more general, somewhat less clumsy expression to denote the evocation of any form of behavior or physiological change by the evidences of work performed by other animals, including the special case of the guidance of additional work.

A phenomenon ( Greek: φαινόμενoν, from the Greek word ‘ phainomenon ’, from the verb ‘ phanein ’, to show, shine, appear, to be manifest ( or manifest itself ), plural phenomena, is any observable occurrence.

Still, they remain an atmospheric phenomenon, and retain their name " meteor " from the Greek word for " atmospheric ".

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

The direct link between the Greek Revival and American democracy has been disputed by recent scholars such as W. Barksdale Maynard, who sees the Greek Revival as an international phenomenon.

David Anthony notes, " About 20 % of Scythian-Sarmatian " warrior graves " on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

An ' idea '— the antithesis of the Dionysian and the Apollinian — translated into the metaphysical ; history itself as the development of this ' idea '; in tragedy this antithesis is sublimated into a unity ; under this perspective things that had never before faced each other are suddenly juxtaposed, used to illuminate each other, and comprehended ... Opera, for example, and the revolution .— The two decisive innovations of the book are, first, its understanding of the Dionysian phenomenon among the Greeks: for the first time, a psychological analysis of this phenomenon is offered, and it is considered as one root of the whole of Greek art.

The 1st century BC Greek astronomer Geminus of Rhodes claimed that the etymology of Thule came from an archaic word for the polar night phenomenon – " the place where the sun goes to rest ".

" The international guide I am Elvis, for instance, contains " photos, repertoire, and personal testimonies that serve to materialize the phenomenon of Elvis impersonation and further institutionalize it, including female Elvii, child Elvii, Black Elvii, El Vez the Mexican Elvis, and scores of British, German, Greek and Indian Elvii.

A halo ( from Greek ἅλως ; also known as a nimbus, icebow or gloriole ) is an optical phenomenon produced by ice crystals creating colored or white arcs and spots in the sky.

Tmesis ( or ; Ancient Greek: tmēsis, " a cutting " < temnō, " I cut ") is a linguistic phenomenon in which a word or set phrase is separated into two parts, with other words occurring between them.

Within its allegorical world of trees, the book has two main frames: that of the syncretic Stuart myth, which fuses elements of Greek, Roman and ancient British myth with hermetic neoplatonism, and that of a specific view of Galenic medicine, altered by an interest in neo-Stoical philosophy to be a radically unstable phenomenon.

A tropism ( from Greek τροπή, trope, " a turning ") is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus.

The name is derived from phenomenon ( from Greek φαινόμενoν, pl.

The term Alkyonides also refers to a meteorological phenomenon of the central Greek climate.

In the case of Greek endings, the plurals sometimes follow the Greek rules: phenomenon, phenomena ; tetrahedron, tetrahedra ; crisis, crises ; hypothesis, hypotheses ; stigma, stigmata ; topos, topoi ; cyclops, cyclopes ; but often do not: colon, colons not * cola ( except for the very rare technical term of rhetoric ); pentathlon, pentathlons not * pentathla ; demon, demons not * demones ; climaxes, not * climaces.