Category:Ancient Greek terms by usage

Ancient Greek terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Ancient Greek autological terms: Ancient Greek terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Ancient Greek colloquialisms: Ancient Greek terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Ancient Greek derogatory terms: Ancient Greek terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Ancient Greek ecclesiastical terms: Ancient Greek terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Ancient Greek endearing terms: Ancient Greek terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Ancient Greek hapax legomena: Ancient Greek terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
• Category:Ancient Greek higher register terms: Ancient Greek terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Ancient Greek humorous terms: Ancient Greek terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Ancient Greek offensive terms: Ancient Greek terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Ancient Greek poetic terms: Ancient Greek terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Ancient Greek rare terms: Ancient Greek terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Ancient Greek short forms: Ancient Greek terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Ancient Greek slang: Ancient Greek colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms of address: Ancient Greek terms used to refer to another person.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms with historical senses: Ancient Greek terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms with rare senses: Ancient Greek rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms with transferred senses: Ancient Greek terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Ancient Greek terms with uncertain meaning: Ancient Greek terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Ancient Greek vulgarities: Ancient Greek terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.