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e with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [

Resembling the Greek letter

r of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage…

In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish, or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greek words

. A combining form from the Greek private, personal, peculiar, distinct.

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

nt on the old. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.

, tense, etc.; subject to inflection. Inflective language (Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.…

was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers. Macaulau. The general influx of Greek into modern languages. Earle.

agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. Instrumental errors, those errors in instrumental measurements, et…

Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital. Ionic dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language,…

The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (i) corresponding with the English i.

The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

the queen of heaven, and the goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek Hera. Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes. Shak.

gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

r but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian,. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).

Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc. Addis & Arnold.

ing to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic. [Written also curiologic and kuriologic.]