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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! 

Φαίνειν (phainin) is an ancient Greek infinitive. The verb is Φαίνομαι (phaenome) and it means 'I show', I appear' . The noun came to English from Latin around 1660 and it was in reference to the different aspects of the moon. The wider use of the word started two centuries later, in 1861 and the spelling is an exact anglicised version of the ancient Greek ΦΑΣΗ/PHASE 

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