Random Greek Words With a Latin Reading and the Meaning Covered

How this list was compiled: Everyday words of Modern Greek; no ancient form is mixed in. Each word's spelling with its accent, part of speech and meaning come from its own entry on English Wiktionary (wikitext read through https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php on 2026-10-01, 40 titles to a request, text under CC BY-SA 4.0; the entry's address is in x.src), Greek section, and each noun's gender is the one in the entry's headword template. Verbs are in the first person singular of the present, the form dictionaries list, and adjectives in the masculine singular. The reading in Latin letters is the one Wiktionary prints for the word, produced by expanding its own Greek link template through the same API and compared, for every noun, verb and adjective, with the entry's headword line rendered the same way (all the same); it follows Wiktionary's transliteration of Greek (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Greek_transliteration) and keeps the accent mark. The article in front of a noun is set by script from the gender (ο masculine, η feminine, το neuter), with Wiktionary's reading of each article (o, i, to). Second sources, both by script on 2026-10-01: every word has a Greek section on the Greek-language Wiktionary (https://el.wiktionary.org), and the gender mark on the form line of each noun's first noun section there had to agree; λαγός and γιατρός, on which the two editions differ, were left out. The English meanings were compared with FreeDict's English-Greek dictionary (https://freedict.org, eng-ell 0.1.1, GNU GPL), used as a check and not as the source: the Greek word stands there under a word of our meaning for 341 of the 385 words, and 20 words are not in that dictionary. Words English took: a noun is in this group only where the English word's own Wiktionary entry names, in its etymology, an Ancient Greek word with the same letters as the modern one once accents and breathings are set aside (a final -ν apart, as in θέατρο from θέατρον); x.en holds the English word. Nouns that failed that test (ορχήστρα, κωμωδία, μηχανή and others) stay on the list as plain nouns with no such claim. The list is our own choice of everyday vocabulary and is copied from no exam body's or course's list. The English meanings are our own short wording; a script then checked that a word of each meaning stands in a definition line under the same part-of-speech heading of the entry, and words that failed were left out. Every English meaning was read for a general audience that includes children: no slang, insult, swear word, alcohol or adult term. After the file was written a script read it back and checked every row against the saved entry text again. Licence: own work