Often one finds that English words are derived from Greek words. This couldn't be farther from the truth with the Greek word Polis. The Greek word Polis is found in modern words: metropolis, Annapolis,and Minneapolis.
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Polis doesn't have any wors stems! polis is actually a word stem itself polis means city. for example police has polis in it as a word stem!
"philía" is a greek word meaning "Love"
YES, XI is acceptable (it's a Greek letter). [HINT: All of the letters of the Greek alphabet are acceptable words in Scrabble.]
The word is made from two Greek words, pan and akos. Pan means "all" and akos means "remedy". The word went from Greek panakeia (= cure-all) to Latin panacea (= herb that would heal all diseases). It came from Latin into the English language in the mid 16th century.
The noun paradox or the adjective orthodox. I believe it is Greek for belief. Also, there is an antibiotic doxycycline but I'm not certain of it's etymology.