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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! 

 In my search for information on this word in English, I was told by the internet, multiple times, that this is a very rare word. I say we bring it back. It's a word that has two meanings and while Greeks use the one, the English use the other. I do find this fascinating because there's no apparent reason why either language kept their version. The English one is based on how Plato -who also coined the term-used it and it arrived in England in the 17th century, via France. Φίλος (philos) means 'friend', Δόξα (doxa) means both 'opinion' and 'glory'. In Greek, the combined word means a friend of glory, an ambitious person. In English, it's someone who loves their own opinions, a dogmatic person a ΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΟΣ/PHILODOX

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