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Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go! 

Since we seem to be having a mini summer here in the UK, I couldn't but do this word today. Καύμα (kavma) in both ancient and modern Greek means 'Heat'. There's a particular time of the day during a Greek summer where the sun burns very hot and the waters are still. That's around 3pm, what Greeks call 'midday', not because of the actual time but of the position of the sun being directly above you. The same goes for Italy of course and the Latin word for it is 'Calere' . In modern Italian 'Calma', in old French 'Calme' where the word, and the spelling of it, jumped to England around the 14th century. The application of the word to a psychological state, came about two centuries later. ΚΑΥΜΑ/CALM

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