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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Filotimo the Hard to Translate Greek Word

Filotimo or philotimo is a Greek noun comprising of the words philo (verb translated as ';to like'; or noun translating as ';friend';) and timo (verb translating as ';to honor';). It is hard to explain, impossible to translate in one word in any other language and so commonly used among Greeks that it is somehow believed that you are actually born with it and must ...

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