Related Experiment Videos
Hypothesis, analysis and synthesis, it's all Greek to me
Ioannis Iliopoulos1, Sophia Ananiadou2, Antoine Danchin3,4
1Division of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Elife
|February 21, 2019
Abstract:
The linguistic foundations of science and technology include many terms that have been borrowed from ancient languages. In the case of terms with origins in the Greek language, the modern meaning can often differ significantly from the original one. Here we use the PubMed database to demonstrate the prevalence of words of Greek origin in the language of modern science, and call for scientists to exercise care when coining new terms.