nostalgic

English translation: νοσταλγικός

06:16 Sep 5, 2004

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Greek term or phrase: nostalgic

where did the word originate from? how would you use it in a sentence?what is an antonym for the word?

shadora thomas

English translation:νοσταλγικός

Explanation:
It comes from the Greek words "Νόστος = Return to the homeland" and "Άλγος = Pain"

means: Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons (Word web) but in Greek it is used mostly as an adjective meaning something that causes you to feel nostalgia.

Example : The nostalgic sound of the barrel organ "Ο νοσταλγικός ήχος της λατέρνας"

I have to think about the antonym

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Note added at 10 hrs 35 mins (2004-09-05 16:51:20 GMT)
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Ευχαριστώ την Ελένη (elena petelos) για το παρακάτω και το προσθέτω εδώ:

Main Entry: nos·tal·gia
Pronunciation: nδ-\'stal-j&, n&- also no-, nO-; n&-\'stδl-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek nostos return home + New
Latin -algia; akin to Greek neisthai to return, Old English
genesan to survive, Sanskrit nasate he approaches
Date: 1770
1 : the state of being homesick : HOMESICKNESS
2 : a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for
return to or of some past period or irrecoverable
condition; also : something that evokes nostalgia
- nos·tal·gic /-jik/ adjective or noun
- nos·tal·gi·cal·ly /-ji-k(&-)lE/ adverb

http://http://www.britannica.com/dictionary?book=Dictionary&...
Den iparxei direct antonym.

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νοσταλγικός

Theodoros Linardos

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[nothing to do with Modern Greek]

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[nothing to do with Modern Greek]

Explanation:
For the meaning of „nostalgic” (from „nostalgia”) see:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nostalgic
www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/nostalgic
www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Nostalgic
http://www.brainydictionary.com/words/no/nostalgic194782.htm...

„Nostalgia” is a modern West-European word and it has nothing to do with Modern Greek, where it is a borrowing (probably from French), except that „nostalgic” acquired a substantival form in MGr. („nostalgos”), first attested in 1894 in a work by the great writer A.Papadiamandis.

„Nostalgia” is an (incorrect) re-hellenization of German „heimweh” by Johannes Hofer, Dissertatio medica de nostalgia, oder Heimwehe (Basel, 1688), translated in The Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 7 (1934): 379-91.

For the etymology see:
nostalgia - 1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease), Mod.L. (cf. Fr. nostalgie, 1802), coined 1668 by Johannes Hofer as a rendering of Ger. heimweh, from Gk. nostos "homecoming" + algos "pain, grief, distress." Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful yearning for the past" first recorded 1920.
www.etymonline.com/n3etym.htm
An interesting article in German:
Nostalgie: Die erstaunliche Karriere eines Kunstworts, das zunaechst nichts anderes als Heimweh bedeutete
http://sehn-sucht.bei.t-online.de/sehn-sucht/s01nostalgie.ht...

Andras Mohay (X)
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Vicky Papaprodromou: It has nothing to do with Modern Greek but it definitely derives from "nostos"=homesickness in Ancient Greek.//My mistake.I meant to say "going back home". "Nόστιμος" was generally referring to going back home, eg. "νόστιμον ήμαρ"=the day of return

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-> Συγγνώμη, Βίκυ, αλλά διαφωνώ. ΑΕ "νόστος" = "επανάκαμψη, παλιννόστηση" και όχι "homesickness". Και ο γερμανοφτιαγμένος όρος κακοποιεί τα Ελληνικά. Η γνήσια (και συγκινητική) επιβίωση sta NE είναι το "νόστιμος" (και το βυζ. "έμνοστος" < "εύνοστος").

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Maria Ferstl: My monolingual Greek dictionary says it's from French "nostalgique". And there are very many words where the situation is quite similar ;-)

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Dylan Edwards: I agree the word didn't originate in Modern Greek! Your Heimweh point is borne out by the Oxford English Dictionary, which says nostalgia was coined as a modern Latin word (from Greek elements, of course), in the sense of "acute homesickness".

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νοσταλγικός

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