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The origins of all three meanings of this word, can be found in Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. But an Ancient Greek comedy character called Είρων (Eron/Iron) who would pretend to not understand what was happening, only to expose the boastful, started appearing more and more until his name was given to his actions. In literature those actions are divided in, Verbal: where you pretend you don't understand what's been said to you, and mock it.  Dramatic: where everyone understands what's happening to you, but you. And, Situational: where you strive for one thing but get quite the opposite result. ΕΙΡΩΝΙΑ/IRONY

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Δια (dia) means 'between', 'across' and it's also the name of the mathematical symbol for division. One of the meanings of the word Λόγος (logos) is, 'speech'. When a new form of speech is created within a language because of a region, a social group or a cultural one then, that form of speech is called a ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΟΣ/DIALECT

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We're doing all things language this November!
Φέρω (fero) is an ancient Greek verb meaning 'to carry', 'to bring'. Μετά (meta) is both a preposition and an adjective, meaning 'after', 'forward'. The combined word means a 'transition'. It's a figure of speech that explains one thing by using another. To carry a meaning over is a ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΑ/METAPHOR

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Happy Halloween everyone! 
This word has an interesting history and several origin theories. The Ancient Greek word Τύμβος (Timvos) , meant either the grave, the small hip of soil on top of a grave or the smoke coming up after the burning of the dead, You can also find the root in Armenian, Sanskrit and Old Welsh. But when the word came to Latin, it got shortened, kept the basic function and left the theories to the linguists and historians. ΤΥΜΒΟΣ/TOMB

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Approaching Halloween so, let the spooky words in! 
Φαίνειν is an ancient Greek infinitive and it means 'to appear/ to make something visible'. The thing that is been made visible is a Φάντασμα  and it used to mean 'an illusion' before it meant 'an apparition'. The root of this word can be found in old Armenian, old Irish and of course Sanskrit but the Greek one is the one that came through. Latin 'Fantasma', French 'Fantome' and eventually the English in the 1300's. ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑ/PHANTOM

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There are some Greek words that the original meaning has been almost lost except for the occasional one that is used for this one specific thing and of course, it's only in Greek. So, υπό is  a preposition meaning 'under' . Θέση means 'position'. The combined word originally meant 'placing something under' but in philosophy and , later, science, the word came to mean 'supposition' . Since that wider use in the 1600's, the world only knows that one meaning (for our Greek listeners υποθήκη is the one that's kept the original meaning).  ΥΠΟΘΕΣΗ/HYPOTHESIS

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If you see and Ancient Greek text, you'll understand it's difficult to know when a word ends and another begins. Today's word is a combined one, not by choice but by accident of someone who wasn't sure how to read it. Εν means in, κύκλος is circle and παιδεία is education. The Ancient Greeks had circles of education subjects. The Arts, Sciences etc. When you've completed one,  you had an εγκυκλος παιδεία, a circled education on that subject. With time, the meaning widened to a general education, a rounded one, one containing all subjects. In the 15th century when the Romans were translating ancient Greek Texts, they mistook the three words for one and in the 18th century people thought, a book with as much general knowledge as possible should be named after that. ΕΓΚΥΚΛΟΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ/ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Hello and welcome to our seventh season! Can you believe it?! Seventh! Well, it's thanks to you we're still here. Subscribing, downloading and sharing our podcast far and wide has seen our audience grow and expand all over the globe. Stay tuned this year, as we have some surprises for you and don't forget to email us with questions or comments at [email protected]. You can also follow us on X at yourgreeksunday and, on Instagram at EmmanuelaLia. Let the season commence! 

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Βαίνειν (venin) is an ancient Greek infinitive meaning 'to be getting somewhere' in this case on a step or a pedestal. The first time you step onto something/setting your foundation is your Βάση.  Following the most common journey, Latin and then French, the word came to English around the 14th century and stayed. ΒΑΣΗ/BASE

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This is the last episode for this season and I'd like to thank you for staying with us for another year! If you have questions, ideas or comments about what you hear in this podcast, feel free to reach out on our Twitter @yourgreeksunday , our email [email protected] or leave a review in the listening platform of your choice. See you in the Autumn everyone! On with our myth! Oh yes, it's a myth! 

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When the Earth and the Sky, or in Greek mythology Gaia and Uranus, gave birth to the Titans, the strongest of them was the great water that surrounded the globe. He stayed out of the Titan war, married his sister Τίθυς (Tithys) and from them, all entities came to be, including the Gods . Their union was so fruitful that floods became a real danger and they had to split so the world could be saved. The word passed into Latin and kept its meaning 'Mare Oceanus' until the late 1600's As explorers started mapping the world, the names of different seas came to be, but his name stayed. ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ/OCEAN

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Ψάω (psao) the verb for 'grinding' and 'smoothing' , and ψάμμος (psammos) the noun, is an ancient greek word that took two different journeys but kept its meaning. After coming to Latin, and among other alterations, it lost the pronunciation of the 'P' in the beginning and became 'Sabulum' ,which is the root for the Italian 'sabbia' and the French 'sable'. Now, this time the word came to English from the Germans that altered it further and shared the variations with the Germanic speaking world. From psammos, to sandam, to sandr, to zand and on the other strand, in modern Greek ΑΜΜΟΣ/SAND

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