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What are some cool Greek words?
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What are some cool Greek words?
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anime is a mistake
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>>8043935
Evangelion
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>>8043935
grimbuts
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lorpottis
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bribbius
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crimmion
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i hate you all btw if I asked this question without anime girl i would get no responses.
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>>8043990
What the fuck do you even mean when you ask for "cool" greek words?

Is this not cool?
>Evangelion
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>>8043990
torpis
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Ataraxia
Empyrean
Hierosgamos
Mythopoeic
Anathema
Philotimon
Psychopomp
Demiourgia
Theoria
Peripeteia
Harmonia
Homophrosyne
Ousia
Pneuma
Nous
Phantasia
Polemos
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Apocatastasis
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pharmakon
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philokalia
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>>8043935

Χαιρεkαkία (hyeh-re-cah-KEE-ah) = a sort of Schadenfreude, literally joy from evil

Χαρμολύπη (har-mo-LEE-pee) = bittersweet sorrow

Σοβαροφάνεια (saw-va-ro-FA-nee-ya) = pretense, literally the appearance of seriousness

Σkουληkομυρμηγkότρυπα (naw, just naw) = wormhole

Αναποτελεσματιkότητα (an-ah-po-teh-less-ma-tee-COH-tee-ta) = inefficiency. Double the syllables, double the fun! A word that is its own image. Also, 'efficiency' is nine syllables long.

No really, Greek is such a fun language, you wouldn't believe.
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>>8043935
Gyros pita
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>>8044331

Σύμπαν = universe, literally all-together

Σύμπτωση = coincidence, literally falling-together

Διαφήμιση = advertising, literally fame-spreading

Αποkάλυψη = discovery (not just apocalypse)

Πειρατής = pirate, literally he-who-attempts

Χρησιμοποιώ = to use. Three ways of writing the sound 'ee', two ways of writing 'o' in the same word. English orthography isn't the only one that sucks!

I love compound words. I hear Russian and German are just as fun when it comes to this.
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>>8044331

Here's two more which are even more fun:

Πουτσόkαμπος (poo-TSOH-cahm-boss) = sausage party, as in only guys at a party. Literally: dick-field.

There's also the opposite, when there's lots of pussy (afaik this doesn't have a correspondent in English, probably because it doesn't happen very often...): Μουνοθύελλα = cunt-storm.
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Prostagma?
Etimos!
Vulome
Eisvoli
Kalos
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Priapus
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Malaka
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>>8044411
kek, I never realized Greeks were so creative.
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Paraskeuazo

This fucking word would show up in every fucking text I read in school; it's burned forever into my memory.
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Graeci pedicatores sunt
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>>8043935
Μουνόπανο
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ἀρσενοkοῖται

it means "warrior of God"
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>>8043935
Apotheosis and apocatastasis are pretty rad if you ask me.
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oppous faggatus
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>>8045353
Αρσενοkοίτης = he who sleeps with men = homosexual, you faggot.
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wololo
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kai
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