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...er symbol is a three-pointed shape resembling the end of a trident, or the Greek letter psi.

...English Dictionary]] traces its English use back as far as 1585, and as in Greek it has been used to refer to images and idealizations of various natures. ...a''. While the English word ''eidolon'' is sometimes pluralized after the Greek word as ''eidola'' ({{IPA0|/aɪˈdoʊlə/}}), for w

...are [[etymology|etymological]] teratisms; the derivation of the original [[Greek]] word ''κένταυρο&si ...combines the forms of two life forms. In fact, "ambate" comes from the [[Greek]] word ''ἀμβάτης'', a va

...ord ''alogous'', meaning not ellogous, not possessing ellogy. (The latter Greek word also gave rise to "[[Wikipedia:Alogi|Alogi]]", a name pejoratively giv

...ords from [[Wikipedia:Old Norse|Old Norse]] and later from [[Latin]] and [[Greek]], and still later, after the [[Wikipedia:Norman conquest|Norman conquest]] ...ientific]] developments. Particularly common are learned derivations from Greek and Latin, which are still to some extent seen as the touchstones for lingu

...other taxonomic descriptors, conventionally comes from the [[Latin]] or [[Greek]]. It may be a Latin word or a compound of Latin words; it may include Lat

...letter]]s, is called an [[alphabet]] (after the first two letters of the [[Greek]] alphabet, alpha and beta). The letters need not have a one-to-one corres ...s) may be disjoint ("[[block]]", sometimes called "printing"), as in the [[Greek]] and [[Futhark]] alphabets, the [[Hebrew]] abjad, or the [[Japanese]] [[ka

...erbates the issue by having both a homograph ''and'' a homophone; from the Greek ''χωρος''). Such terms, however, have in few

...s claimed from the name of the ''[[Wiktionary:xyston|xyston]]'' ([[ancient Greek]] ''ξυστοόν''), a kind of [[spear]],

Cosmic partitions are often designated by the ancient [[Greek]] letter [[Wikipedia:koppa (letter)|koppa]], Ϙ; however, conventions

...ar, cylindrical, or trochilical coordinates is usually symbolized by the [[Greek]] letter θ, the additional angle of spherical or phalaggomatic coordi