How To Use Modern greek In A Sentence
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Thus the hymn appears in the Office of Holy Week, with the Greek words ` Ágios ó theòs, ` ágios ìskhuròs, ` Ágios àthánatos èléeson èmâs expressed in Latinized characters, chosen to represent the Greek pronunciation (e.g. eleison imas for eleéson émas, the aspirate, as in modern Greek, remaining unheard).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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The modern Greek male costume is often called a petticoat or a tutu.
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A modern Greek tale narrates that a nereid, enamoured of a youth, and by him scorned, turned him into a snake till he should find another love as fair as she.
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The sound does not occur in Modern Greek so the choice of breathings makes no difference now.
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Boule:The lower house of the modern Greek legislature.
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Modern Greek also retains from the ancient language a system of three pitch accents (acute, circumflex, grave).
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ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek
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All students taking honours in Greek may also study Modern Greek.
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New American cooking incorporates many ingredients from Mediterranean cuisines that are enhanced by modern Greek wines.
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Towards the end of the parade came the Greek Revolution of 1821, which began to carve a modern Greek state out of the Ottoman empire, featuring national independence fighters in their traditional costumes and fustanellas.
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I can read the alphabet, but I don't speak more than a few words: I only worked in Greece a few weeks, though my children went to school there for a while, and they speak modern Greek.
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Modern Greek also retains from the ancient language a system of three pitch accents: acute, circumflex and grave.
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In American folklore, however, the same activity is associated with modern Greeks.
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This ideal of enosis (from the modern Greek word enono I join together) has never died completely, but was never completely achieved.
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Those who recall Mercouri only as a mid-century sex symbol outshone by her more celebrated contemporaries Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot might be bemused by the exalted place she now occupies in the modern Greek pantheon, rather as if Angie Dickinson had become head of the National Endowment for the Arts. But more than anyone else, Mercouri vivified the continuing campaign to bring Greece's long-lost archaeological treasures back to their homeland.
Grading the New Acropolis
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The modern Greeks call silk [Greek: metaxa.]] [Footnote 3: [Greek: "tzandana,"] probably "sandalwood;" sometimes called _agallochum.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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In Arabic LL camisa became gamīs, kamís ` long shirt 'and was taken into English as camise ` light, loose, long-sleeved shirt, gown, or tunic sometimes worn as an undergarment,' and Modern Greek has hypokámiso
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Merriam-Webster offers another theory; that pizza is related to the modern Greek word pitta meaning "flatbread.
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Described as a "modern Greek tragedy" and "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender" Kafka on the Shore is a compelling story that will stretch the limits of your imagination.
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All students taking honours in Greek may also study Modern Greek.
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The phenomenon of palatalization is the single most important phonetic phenomenon of the Modern Greek language.
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Most modern Greek wine finds a ready market within Greece, where the appreciation of good wine has increased considerably.
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Further more, I (and most of the world) don´t believe modern Greeks are actually the same ´Greeks´ as the Ancient Greeks!
American Chronicle
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It’s an almost impossible effect to get across in English (the effect seems to me something like Owen’s pararhyme, as one thing transforms into another by the shift of a vowel – with the difference that in modern Greek u, ei, oi, i, and e all actually sound the same), though I do wish more translators would at least try to get across some of his formal elements.
Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
