Comes from the Greek word abax, which means, ‘sand tray.’ Originally, columns of pebbles were laid out on the sand for purposes of counting.

From Greek allos meaning ‘other’ and agora meaning gathering place (especially the marketplace). In times past, it was common to do one's chatting at the marketplace. Some of the topics discussed were secret in nature and when people spoke about them, for fear of being punished, they would speak indirectly. That is to say, they would speak about one thing but mean something else. Eventually the words joined and became associated with the act of speaking about one thing while meaning another.

From the Greek ‘barbaroi,’ meaning ‘babblers,’ used to mean non-Greeks, i.e., people who didn't speak Greek; from the sound that the Greeks thought they were making: ‘bar bar bar bar...’

From the Greek ‘boukolos,’ meaning ‘herdsman,’ from ‘bous,’ meaning ‘ox.’

From the Greek ‘bous’ meaning ‘ox’ and ‘limos,’ meaning, ‘hunger.’ One with Bulimia has the ‘appetite of an ox.’

From the Greek ‘chainein,’ meaning, ‘to yawn’; chaos was thus the ‘original yawning abyss’ outside of the ordered universe we know.

From the Greek ‘Kara’ for ‘face,’ via the Latin ‘Cara,’ and Old French ‘Chiere’ for the same. So ‘Be of good cheer,’ means, ‘Put on a happy face.’

Comes from the Greek sikera, which came from the ancient Hebrew shekar, meaning ‘any intoxicating drink other than wine made by the fermentation of fruit juice.’

Through the non-adjacent corners. From the Greek ‘dia’ meaning ‘through’ and ‘gonia’ meaning ‘a corner.’

A drawn plan meant to explain something. From the Greek ‘dia’ meaning ‘round’ and ‘graphein’ meaning ‘to write.’

A straight line passing through the centre of a circle. From ‘dia’ meaning ‘through’ and ‘metron’ meaning ‘measure.’

Study of the earth. From the Greek, ‘Geographia,’ or ‘writing about the earth’; ‘ge’ meaning ‘earth’ and ‘graphein’ meaning ‘to write’.

Greek for a place where you train to keep fit.

Greek for ‘Choice.’

All from the Greek ‘idein,’ for ‘to see’; Links to the Sanskrit ‘vid’ (to know) and Latin ‘videre’ (to see) and the English ‘wise.’ The W/V sound from the Indo-European root was lost in ancient Greek.

Both from the Greek Muse (museum is Latin for ‘Place inhabited by the Muses’; mosaic is from the Greek mouseios, ‘related to the Muses’)

Having eight feet, arms or limbs. From the Greek ‘okto’ meaning ‘eight’ and ‘podos’ meaning ‘foot.’

‘Ostron’ is a Greek word for pottery. The Greeks would hold an election to determine if someone was a danger to their community. Everyone would write their votes on broken pieces of pottery (‘ostron’) and if the vote was successful, the person was banished or ‘ostracized.’

The boundary of, or distance round a plane figure. From the Greek ‘peri’ meaning ‘around’ and ‘meter’ from ‘metron’ meaning ‘measure’.

Prefix, from the Greek ‘phos’ or ‘photos’ meaning ‘light’.

The process by which a plant makes its own food, using light. From the Greek ‘photo’ meaning ‘light’; ‘syn’ meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’; and ‘thesis’ meaning ‘to put’.

From the Greek ‘Planasthai’ for ‘to wander.’

Prefix meaning ‘many’ from the Greek ‘polys’ meaning ‘much’.

A plane figure with many straight sides (and therefore many angles) from the Greek ‘polys’ meaning ‘much’ and ‘gonia’ meaning ‘angles’.

From the Greek ‘Pseudos,’ meaning, ‘false.’

Study of the mind. From the Greek ‘Psyche’ meaning ‘soul’, and ‘ology’ meaning ‘study of.’

From ‘Circus,’ which is from the Greek ‘Krikos’ or ‘Kirkos,’ which was a hawk or falcon which flies in circles, and later just a circle or ring.

All come from the Greek saccharon and the Roman saccharum, which are both distortions of the Sanskrit sarkara. Around the year 1000, after conquering a good portion of the southern Mediterranean, the Arabs installed the first ‘industrial’ sugar refinery on the island of Crete, which they renamed Qandi, which in Arabic means ‘crystallized sugar.’ This is how the word ‘candy’ made its way into English. Shortly thereafter, the Arabs also invented ‘caramel,’ which comes from the Arabic phrase kurat al milh and means ‘ball of sweet salt.’

From the Greek ‘sykon,’ meaning ‘fig’; a sycophant was thus originally someone who makes figs appear. There are a few suggested etymologies: fig smuggling was illegal in ancient Greece, so a sycophant could have been a telltale for a reward; or, it could be from the shaking of a fig-tree, which moved the figs from the hidden heights to the ground where all could see it; or, it could be from ‘the sign of the fig,’ which is the gesture of making a fist with the thumb in-between the index and middle fingers used to indicate an accusation of wrong-doing.

Suffix, from the Greek meaning ‘far off’.

From the Greek ‘tele’ meaning ‘far off’ and ‘phone’ meaning ‘a sound’.

‘Therma’ (hot) is from the Greek city of Therma, known for its hot springs.

From the Greek of the same, meaning, ‘to put, place, set.’

Prefix meaning ‘three’. From the Greek ‘treis’ or ‘tria’.

From the Greek, ‘tyrannos,’ for ‘absolute ruler’.

Greek for ‘no where.’

Comes from the Greek word for wine, oinos (in Crete), which itself was taken from the name of the Greek god who was supposed to have first revealed the secret of wine to the ancient Cretans, Dionysus (Pronounce it without the ‘Di.’).