And since we are talking about devices, the Greek word for device is mekhane or makhana in doric Greek which became machina in Latin and then machine in English.So if you combine it with phone (sound, voice) it is the perfect word to describe a device that helps you speak from afar. The prefix “tele” meant at a distance, far off.

You definitely say telescope and television. You may say phone, but the full word is telephone.Ancient Greeks loved predicting and inventing future concepts indeed. Androides was a compound word made of aner (man, person) and eides (form, shape) and was used to describe something designed to look like a man. Is your phone an android or ios? Did you understand which character was an android in the movie? Whether you are talking about an operating system or a robot in a sci-fi movie, android is without a doubt a word you use or hear a lot.The word used, however, remains Greek to its very core. Today the term has become wider and wider since everything around us seems to be technology-related. Made up of the words techne (art) and logia (words, explanations) it started being used by all European languages to describe the organization of knowledge for practical reasons. Technologia in ancient Greek meant the systematic treatment of grammar. First of all, the word technology itself.Few people realize that Greek is a lot closer to them than they think and that is because Greek is heavily used in the field of technology as well. While people are aware they use a lot of Greek words in their everyday life, most of them believe that these words are mainly found in the fields of medicine, maths and sciences.