χρυσός
Χρυσός [hrisOs]
greek
The Greek basanites, 'to put to the test' refers to black quartz, what we call a 'touchstone' in testing gold content.
The word gold originates from the old English word "ghel". It is also the origin for the words gilt, gilding, gelded and geld, meaning to resurface with a shiny substance even with gold.
Oreo
It comes from the Latin word for gold: aurum.
Ummm, the periodic table is mostly abbreviations of greek words for the periodic table eg. Au (Gold) is short for Aurum. (Useless info: this is where the English word for aura came from to represent a sort of inner shine that gold seemed to have)
"Eureka" comes from the Ancient Greek word heúrēka, meaning "I have found it"
Both. The word used is chryselephantine (Greek chrysos = gold, elephantinos = ivory). The statue of Athena in the Parthenon was also chryselephantine.
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The Greek word for experience is εμπειρία (empeiría).
the greek word for egg is: avgo