Template:Lang-grc-gre/doc

Further information: History of Greek

Use

Use this template for Greek words for which the Ancient Greek description is not satisfactory or limiting. Such words can be:

• Words of Koine Greek such as Greek: κράββατος (krábbatos, "bed").
• Words of Late Antiquity and Atticist words of Byzantine literature, such as Greek: ἀθεμιτογαμία (athemitogamíā, "unlawful marriage").
• Names, such as Greek: Αγησίλαος (Agēsílaos, "Agesilaus") and Greek: Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, "Socrates").
• Hellenized Latin and Hebrew names, such as Greek: Ἰουστινιανός (Justinian), Greek: Αὐρήλιος (Aurelius) and Greek: Ἰωσήφ (Joseph).
• Words that have remained unchanged throughout the history of the Greek language such as Greek: θάλασσα (thálassa, "sea") and Greek: ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, "man"). Their meaning may be the same.
• Newly coined scientific (or not) words from Ancient Greek roots, such as haemophilia and astronaut.

Syntax

{{lang-grc-gre
| Text in Ancient Greek in Greek alphabet
| Text in Ancient Greek transliterated in Latin alphabet (optional)
| Translation in English (optional)}},

e. g. :

• {{lang-grc-gre|ἄτομος}} = Greek: ἄτομος
• {{lang-grc-gre|ἄτομος|átomos}} = Greek: ἄτομος, translit. átomos
• {{lang-grc-gre|ἄτομος|átomos|atom}} = Greek: ἄτομος, translit. átomos, lit. "atom"
• {{lang-grc-gre|ἄτομος||atom}} = Greek: ἄτομος, lit. "atom"

See also

• {{lang|el}} tags Modern Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).
• {{lang|grc}} tags Ancient Greek text, without the label (for use with custom display, and other uses).
• {{transl|grc}} tags text as "Ancient Greek Transliteration" (has no visible effect other than tool tip when pointer is placed on text).