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What is the Greek word for one who participates in sports contests?
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∙ 8y ago
σπορ = Sports
Or as a noun: αθλητισμός = Sports (noun)
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What was the greek word for one participates in sport contests?
poo
What was the greek word for one who participates in sport contest?
poo
What is the word for 'sports' in Greek?
ΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΑ (Athlimata)
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What was the greek word for one who participated in sports?
poo
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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.
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Abstracted from pentathlon in 1956 to describe an athletics contest in which participants ski and shoot, it comes from the Greek language words meaning two contests.
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.
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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.
