XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: occam@nowhere.nix   
      
   On 19/09/2024 06:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   > Another one that stuck for me was “metic”, “resident foreigner in a   
   > Greek city state,” apparently not related to meticulous.   
      
   Try 'hermetic' as a related concept. A 'foreigner' in ancient Greek was   
   someone from another city state, even if that was a city in Greece.   
   'Greece' did not become an entity until much later.   
      
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