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Was Exceeding Wroth      Figure 1:    Homer Simpson "disciplining" his son, Bart.  Learning dead languages is difficult, which is why I like to draw pictures so as to aid me in this endeavour. The Ancient Greek word for: ‘rage,’ or: ‘wrath’ or: ‘divine anger’ is the 1 st -declension feminine noun: ἡ μῆνις [1] . or: ‘hē mē̃nis’ [2] . . The morphology of: ἡ μῆνις or: ‘hē mē̃nis’ is as follows: The Ancient-Greek 1 st -declension feminine noun: ἡ μῆνις or: hē mē̃nis:   Singular: Dual: Plural: Nominative: ἡ μῆνις τὼ μήνιε αἱ μήνιες Genitive...

A Rule for the Accentuation of Ancient Greek. Figure 1:   A Greek flag that I coded in SVG. Figure 2:   What the above image looks like when exported as a PNG file You may view the code, and the vector image itself, for the above depicted Greek flag at my CodePen account. Figure 3:   ἡ λύρα Genitive: τῆς λύρᾱς or: hē lúra Genitive: tē̃s lúrās. 1st-declension feminine noun. The lyre. The lyre is very often used to symbolise Ancient Greece. Nouns are Persistent , whereas Verbs are recessive: Nouns are Persistent [1] : When it comes to Ancien...

Figure 1:   a very ergonomic  looking office chair! The Ancient-Greek noun, τὸ ἔργον or 'tò érgov' means 'work;' whereas the Ancient-Greek noun, ὁ νόμος or 'ho nómos' means 'custom,' 'law;' and the Latin 1st-and-2nd-declension adjectival suffix, '-ica, -icus, -icum' means 'of.' From the above Ancient Classical words, we derive the English noun, 'ergonomics,' which is the study and application of workplace comfort, safety and hygiene with a view to improving the contentedness and well-being of staff.

In Ancient Greek, the verb,  κινεῶ or 'kineȭ;' κινῶ or 'kinȭ,' means 'I move.' From the above Ancient-Greek verb, we derive the term, 'kinetic energy,' which - in Physics - is 'the energy that an object possesses by virtue of its being in motion .' We also derive the English noun, 'cinema,' from 'kinȭ.' In Ancient Greek, the noun, τὸ κίνημα or 'tò kínēma,' means 'movement.'  A cinema is a device whereby we may watch feature-length films, or 'motion pictures.' In a 'motion picture,' the pictures are said * to move * , hence we also term them 'movies.'

Figure 1:   As a nineties kid, I remember this puppet well. The proper name, 'Otis,' or / ˈ o.tɪs/ means 'nobody.' It is derived from the Ancient-Greek adverb, οὐκ or ‘ouk;’ or  οὐ or ‘ou’, which means ‘not’ and the pronoun, τις or ‘tis;’ which means ‘somebody,’ ‘someone.’ Hence  Οὖτις, or 'O ũtis,' means 'not someone' or 'not somebody' or 'nobody,' 'no-one.'  'O ũtis,' appears in Homer's Odyssey: Outis in the Odyssey Wikipedia Page A a child, I always hated Otis the Aardvark, though! He was no Ed the Duck, that's for sure! Figure 2:   This is what a real entertainer looks like!