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Greek metal

Postby Gnaeus Dionysius Draco on Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:30 pm

Salvete,

Just a simple question: what is the ancient Greek word for "metal"? A word that could mean "gravity" or "ice" is also welcome. I forgot a lot, as you can see :). I need to know these words to form compounds with -kinesis for the novel I'm writing.

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Postby Q Valerius on Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:32 am

ice is κρύσταλλος, hence crystal, and metal (iron) is σίδηρος.
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Postby Q Valerius on Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:33 am

hm. can't display unicode? how about kru/stalloj and si/dhroj.
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Re: Greek metal

Postby Quintus Pomponius Atticus on Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:11 am

Gnæus Dionysius Draco wrote:Salvete,

Just a simple question: what is the ancient Greek word for "metal"? A word that could mean "gravity" or "ice" is also welcome. I forgot a lot, as you can see :). I need to know these words to form compounds with -kinesis for the novel I'm writing.

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Salve Draco,

Here's a good link for such searches :

English to Greek Word Search.
This allows you to search the English definitions in LSJ.

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Postby Gnaeus Dionysius Draco on Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:41 pm

Gratias vobis ago, amici.

What does sidhroi mean? The translator page Atticus suggested doesn't list this as a possibility. For "metal" an option seems to be quite simply "metallon" :).

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Postby Q Valerius on Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:03 pm

Odd. My Oxford Dictionary says it means iron.
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Postby Quintus Pomponius Atticus on Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:20 pm

Q. Valerius Scerio wrote:Odd. My Oxford Dictionary says it means iron.


It does, indeed. :)
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Postby Gnaeus Dionysius Draco on Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:06 pm

Salve Scerio,

Ahh, I only searched on "metal" not on iron. That will probably be the reason why it wasn't listed. I wasn't disputing your authority here ;).

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Postby Q Valerius on Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:29 pm

I thought I did specify that in my post "metal (iron)" - but hey, we all overlook things ;)
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