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A native of Achaia; a Greek.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning. In am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Rev. xxii. 13.

A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.

to, adapted for, or connected with, both land and water. The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare.

A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

s; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts…

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican pa…

Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinde…

A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.

Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.