The Greek alphabet
Many of the words we use today in the English language have Greek origins. Even
the word alphabet comes from the first two letters in the Greek alphabet A (alpha) and B (beta). We used our dictionary skills
and located words which originated from Greek. Here are some of them:
We found out that gramophone is a Greek word
meaning a written sound .Gram means written. Phone means sound.
A gramophone is a record player.
Nicolas, Mathew, Jin Hyun.
We found out that the word 'Atmosphere' in greek
meant vapour-ball.
Atmos-in greek = vapour .
Sphere-in greek = ball.
Atmosphere is the air around the earth.
Kathryn,Miri,Vasco
We found out that dyspepsia means difficult-digest in greek
word.
dys- in greek word is difficult.
pepsia- come from a greek word peptikos and it means able
to digest.
Dyspepsia is a word we use which means indigestion.
Yutaro,Jonathan and Ryan.
Azizah found that the word Arithmatic is a Greek word meaning
calculating with numbers.
APHRODITE
POSEIDON
APOLLO
ZEUS
