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εὖ : well/good κατα- : back/against στρέφω : I turn/twist It looked funny pairing for bit of Greek I know until I read the link and realized it wasn’t really G
by rwbaskette 4y ago
εὖ : well/good
κατα- : back/against
στρέφω : I turn/twist
It looked funny pairing for bit of Greek I know until I read the link and realized it wasn’t really Greek.
- sh1mmer 4y agoYou weren’t far off > The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe From the New Oxford Dictionary > Catastrophe: mid 16th century (in the sense 'denouement'): from Latin catastropha, from Greek katastrophé 'overturning, sudden turn', from kata- 'down' + strophe 'turning' (from 'down strephein 'to turn').
- sdenton4 4y agoIt's Greek for deus ex machina!