English words with Greek origin beginning with letter s:
- Sarcasm – From ‘sarkasmos’ (to tear flesh, speak bitterly).
- Sarcoidosis – From ‘sarka’ flesh
- Sarcophagus – From ‘sarkophagos’ (flesh-eating).
- Scandal – From ‘skandalon’ meaning animal trap
- School – From Greek ‘scholē’, meaning leisure, philosophy, lectures.
- Schizophrenia – From ‘schizein’ (to split) and ‘phren’ (mind).
- Scope – From ‘skopein’ (to look)
- Seismology – From ‘seismos’ (earthquake) and ‘logos’.
- Seismometer – From ‘seismos’ (earthquake) and meter
- Seismophobia – From ‘seismos’ (earthquake) and phobia
- Semantic – From ‘semantikos’ (significant).
- Sepsis – From ‘sepsis’ (putrefaction).
- Series – From ‘seira” (queue or row)
- Siphon – From siphon (tube)
- Sisyphean – From ‘Sisyphos’ an ancient Greek king
- Skeleton – From ‘skeletos’
- Sophist – From ‘sophistes’ (wise man, teacher).
- Sophomore – From ‘sophos’ (wise) and ‘moros’ (foolish).
- Somatic – From ‘soma’ (body).
- Sperm – From sperma (seed)
- Spermatozoon – From sperm (seed) and zoon (animal)
- Sphere – From ‘sphaira’ (globe, ball).
- Sphinx – From ‘sphinx’ (strangler).
- Sphygmomanometer – From ‘sphygmos’ (pulse) and ‘manometer’.
- Stereoscope – From ‘stereos’ and ‘skopein’.
- Stereoscopic – From ‘stereos’ and ‘skopein’.
- Stereotype – From ‘stereos’ (solid) and ‘typos’ (impression).
- Stenography – From ‘stenos’ (narrow) and ‘graphein’ (to write).
- Stethoscope – From ‘stethos’ (chest) and ‘skopein’ (to examine).
- Stigma – From ‘stigma’ (mark, puncture).
- Stoic – From ‘stoa’ (porch), where Zeno taught.
- Stoichiometry – From ‘stoikheion’ (element) and ‘metron’ (measure).
- Story – From Greek ‘historia”
- Strategy – From ‘strategia’ (generalship).
- Stratosphere – From ‘stratos’ (army, layer) and ‘sphaira’.
- Sycophant – From ‘sykophantes’ (fig shower, informer).
- Symphony – From ‘symphonia’ (sounding together).
- Symptom – From ‘symptoma’ (a happening).
- Sympathy – From ‘sympatheia’ (fellow-feeling).
- Symbiosis – From ‘sym’ (together) and ‘biosis’ (living).
- Symbiotic – From ‘sym’ and ‘biosis’.
- Symbol – From ‘symbolon’ (token, watchword).
- Syndrome – From ‘syndromos’ (running together).
- Synagogue – From ‘synagoge’ (meeting, assembly).
- Synergetic – Related to ‘synergy’.
- Synergy – From ‘synergos’ (working together).
- Synoptic – From ‘synoptikos’ (seeing the whole together).
- Synopsis – From ‘synopsis’ (general view).
- Synthesis – From ‘synthesis’ (putting together).
- Synthesizer – From ‘syn” together + ‘thesis’ putting
- Synthetic – Related to ‘synthesis’.
- Syntax – From ‘syntaxis’ (arrangement).
- System – From word systima
- Systematic – From ‘systematikos’ (combined in a system).
- Syphilis – From ‘Syphilos’, a character in a poem.