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Originally Posted by Barcarolle
Govern in latin means Control
Mente in greek means Mind
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Wow.
Thats a good one, I never heard that before. I feel the need to check it out, something that obvious would have surely come to light earlier.
For information: Mente is not Mind in modern greek (I am told my my Greek friend that the word is "mialo"). We are checking with a Greek scholar now...
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Hi,
The ancient Greek word for “Mind” is “Nous”(nominative case) – Nou (genitive case) which is a masculine noun meaning also: "understanding, reason, thought, insight, purpose, intention, sense", according to the context.
As I cannot use the Greek characters since the system does not allow it, and then I had to write the word ‘nous' into corresponding letters of Latin alphabet, here is the name of each Greek letter, so that you can see these letters of Greek alphabet at the sites I mention below:
-Nous = nu-omicron-upsilon-sigma. The circumflex accent stands on the upsilon.
-Nou = nu-omicron-upsilon.
Finally here's the pronunciation of « nous » :
-“n” as ‘n' in English
-“ou”, the diphthong, as “oo' in ‘poor'
-“s” as ‘s' in ‘say'.
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