There are too many of them to be listed here.
A group of them is all English words spelled with ph, instead of f.
See: philosophy, photography, catastrophe, telephone, phrase, phase, epiphany
Another category, is all the words ending in -on and having an irregular plural of -a. Example: phenomenon, phenomena
A third category, is all the sciences ending in -y: biology, geography, astronomy, trigonometry. (Notice that algebradoes not fit - it derives from the Arabic.)
Actually, 63% of all English words come from Latin.
Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. Some English words come from Greek. Or, if what you are looking for is about people, then again it is the opposite. If English and Greeks are related at all, then English would come from Greek, not the other way around.
Yes, it's possible that Latin has a larger vocabulary than Greek. One reason is the borrowing of many words from the classical language of the ancient Greeks. But just for the record, the borrowing isn't one way. For example, the modern Greek names for the months of the year come from classical Latin.
No. They Greek language uses a different alphabet than English.
Germanic, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, and Greek. Plus many other languages.
The word originates from Old English, German, and dutch words. This is an exception to most words which find their origins in the Latin and Greek language.
deka logia Anglika= '10 English words' :)
Many words in English ( European or North American versions ) originally were Latin or Greek., e.g. alibi. Of course, English has borrowed words from so many different languages e.g. taboo, menu, sauna, pasta, sourkraut, litre, liter, hamburger.
Some Greek vocabulary words that are used in English writing are kudos, phobia, genesis, and dogma. The Greek language has had a strong impact on the English language.
The word 'great' does not come from greek. it's old English from the germanic: "grautaz"
English has thousands of Greek words. Here are a few: telegraph telephone dinosaur philospophy chemistry physics psychology zealot
It is from Greek - diametros - there is also a Latin word, diametrus. These words passed into old French as Diameter ans subsequently into English