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gymnasium (literally: a place to exercise naked)
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What is the Greek word for one who participates in sports contests?
σπορ = Sports Or as a noun: αθλητισμός = Sports (noun)
What is the word for 'sports' in Greek?
ΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΑ (Athlimata)
What is the Greek word for mushroom?
room
What do the word Nike mean in Greek?
god of sports
What was the greek word for one who participated in sports?
poo
How do you say athletic in Greek?
You can say athlete in Greek by saying athlitis. If you wanted to say the word sports in Greek it would be athlitismos.
Is inside and indoor prefix words?
The word 'indoor' is generally used as an adjective, as in 'indoor activities', indoor swimming pool', etc.
What is the root word in indoor?
The root word in "indoor" is "in," which means within or inside.
What is the word for the fear of viewing sports or playing sports?
sportsphobiaIt is not sportsphobia. That mixes Latin with Greek words which you should try to avoid in compound words.The word 'sport' comes from from Old French desporter(des- 'away' + porter 'carry') which is in turn from the Latin word portare, to carry).The word 'phobia' is the Greek word for fear, so you cannot mix the two.Sp, to work out the name of any phobia, you need to find the name of the thing that is feared in Greek (for example spider in Greek is arakhne, so the fear of spiders is arachno-phobia).The Greek for sport is athletikos (which originally meant to compete for a prize), so a fear of sports is athletikophonia.I mean here ancient Greek of course, as in modern Greek the word 'spor' is also used for sport.
What is the word for mud room in French?
in a house, the mud room would be called le vestibule or l'entrée. In a sports installation, the mud room is called 'le vestiaire'
What is the name of the building where the athletes lived and trained in ancient olympic games?
You might be thinking of gymnasion, a greek word for a sports school and where our current word gymnasium derives. The word gymnos in Greek, incidently, meant naked.
What does 'athlete' mean in Greek?
It means someone who does a sport or sports . It it derived from άθλος (athlos) meaning a great achievement, but the word athlete is only used for sports.
