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  2. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    8.8 Greek words. 8.9 Hebrew words. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used. See why.

  3. Category:Greek words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title). Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  4. Aetia (Callimachus) - Wikipedia

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    The Aetia (Ancient Greek: Αἴτια, romanized: Aitia, lit. 'causes') is an ancient Greek poem by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus. As an aetiological poem, it presents a large collection of origin myths in four books of elegiac couplets. Although the poem cannot be precisely dated, scholars estimate it was probably composed between 270 and ...

  5. List of modern literature translated into dead languages

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    Ancient Greek: Max und Moritz auf Altgriechisch [5] Max und Moritz: Wilhelm Busch: Otto Schmied: Reclam, Ditzingen: 2007 Koine Greek: Peter Rabbit and Other Stories in Koine Greek [6] The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies: Beatrix Potter: Gary Manning: GlossaHouse: 2020 Koine Greek: The Tale of ...

  6. Methods of divination - Wikipedia

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    stichomancy / ˈ s t ɪ k oʊ m æ n s i /: by books or lines (Greek stikhos, ' line of verse ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') aleuromancy ² / ə ˈ lj ʊər oʊ m æ n s i / : by fortune cookies (of the same origin as aleuromancy ¹)

  7. Kephale - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Kephalē (Greek: κεφαλή) literally means "head" in ancient Greek.

  8. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    The poet Cratinus calls the chicken "the Persian alarm". In Aristophanes's comedy The Birds (414 BC) a chicken is called "the Median bird", which points to an introduction from the East. Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery. In Ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were rather prestigious food for ...

  9. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    From Greek λέκος dish + -τροπος turning [5] [6] [7] Lens or Vesica shape (the latter taking its name from the shape of the lentil seed); see also mandorla, almond-shaped; Lune, from the Latin word for the Moon; Maltese Cross curve [8] Mandorla, almond-shaped (Italian for "almond"), often used as a frame in mediaeval Christian ...