(So far this consists mainly in a list of English substitutions for Greek words. Eventually, I would like to flesh out the more important words in the manner of the glossaries at the back of Joe Sach’s Aristotle translations for Focus Philosophical Press, which are truly excellent.)
agathon good
agnoia ignorance
agora marketplace, public assembly place
akrasia powerlessness, weakness, lack of self-control
aisthēsis sense perception
aitia cause, charge, blame
alētheia truth
anamnēsis recollection
andreia courage, manliness
apeiron unlimited
apodeixis display, speech to demonstrate rhetorical mastery
aporia impasse, confusion
archē beginning, rule, founding principle
aretē virtue, excellence
ascholia busy-ness, lack of leisure
asēbia impiety
athanatos immortal, deathless
basanos testing stone, touchstone
bios life
charis grace, favor
chōra separation, space, area, country
chorismos separation
chōriston separate
chrōma color
daimōn personal divinity, destiny
deinos terrible, clever
dialectic common search for truth through opposing points of view
dianoia thought, thinking, thinking-through
didachē teaching
dikaiosynē justice, NT: righteousness
doxa opinion, seeming, reputation, NT: glory
dynamis potency, power
eikasia imagination, power of seeing an image as an image
eikōn image
ēthos character
ergon work, function, job
eristic competitive disputation
eidos form, the look common among things of the same type, idea
eirōnia irony, dissembling
elenchos refutation, testing, questioning, Socratic method
empereia experience, knack
energeia activity, being-at-work
epekeina beyond, transcendent
epistēmē knowledge, science
epithymia desire, craving
erastēs lover, dominant sexual partner
eromenos beloved, passive sexual partner
erōs desire, love
eschaton end
eudaimonia happiness, Aristotle: activity of the soul in accordance w/ arete
eunoia good-will
eusēbia piety
gennaiōs nobly, in accordance with one’s heritage
hamartia error, wandering, tragic flaw, NT: sin
harmonia harmony
hedonē pleasure
hexis habit, active posture of readiness
hoi polloi the many, the vulgar
homologia agreement
homodoxia unanimity, shared opinion
homonoia unanimity, like-mindedness
hybris excessive pride
hygeia health
idea form, look, eidos
idiotēs private
logos speech, word, reason, proportion, ratio
kalos, kalia beautiful, beauty, nobility, gracefulness
kalos kagathos gentleman, literally: the beautiful and good person
kinēsis movement
koinōnia community, common participation, sharing
kosmos order, fashion, ordered system
makrologia long-winded speech
mathēsis learning, root of “mathematics”
metaxy intermediate, in between
methexis participation, relationship between a form and its particulars
metron measure
morphē shape, form
mousikē music — includes poetry, drama, etc.
mythos story, plot
noēsis intellect, full understanding
nomos law, custom
nosos illness, disease
nous mind, understanding, intellect
orthē doxa right opinion
ousia being, substance, inheritance, estate
parrhēsia candidness, frankness, truth-telling
pathos feeling, emotion
penia poverty
peithō persuasion
peras limit, boundary
periogogē conversion
phantasia imagination
philia friendship
philodoxia love of opinion
philonikia love of victory
philosophia love of wisdom
phronēsis practical wisdom
physis nature
pistis trust, belief, NT: faith
pleonexia acquisitiveness
poiēsis making, production
polis city-state
politeia constitution, including laws and customs, of a polis
polypragmosynē having many occupations, meddlesomeness, opposite of justice
poros resource, wealth
praxis action, activity
protreptic exhortation, literally: “turn forward”
psychē soul
scholē leisure
skopos object of attention
skotos, skotosis shadow, obscurity
sophia wisdom
sophrosynē moderation, temperance, self-control
spoudē serious
stasis rest, stillness, civil war
sterēsis deprivation, lack
synousia association, euphemism for sexual relations
taxis ordered arrangement
technē skill, craft, know-how
telos end, goal, aim
thanatos death
thumos spirit, competitive striving
timē honor
tychē chance
tyrannos tyrant, one who rules without respecting nomos
xunon common
zētēsis search
shared ignorance 