Koine Greek

common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world

king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt (308–246 B.C.)

ancient Greek grammarian

limit of the influences of Latin culture and Greek culture

verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice

orthographical conventions of Greek, modern and historical

Iotacism (, iotakismos) or itacism is the process of vowel shift by which a number of vowels and diphthongs converged towards the pronunciation in post-classical Greek and Modern Greek. The term "iotacism" refers to the letter iota, the original sign for , with which these vowels came to merge. The alternative term itacism refers to the new pronunciation of the name of the letter eta as after the change.

diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet

ancient Greek phonetic process