photios
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Photius.
Example Sentences
- "As a boy, Majdalani would pass Sunday Mass staring at icons. By his early 20s, he was spending summers in Greece learning from Photios Kontoglou, a man credited with leading a revival of Byzantine-style iconography."
- "He also pursued research on the learned ninth-century Patriarch of Constantinople, Photios, which combined many of his interests, including the relationship between classical learning and Christianity, as well as his by now well-developed interest in the reunion of Christendom."
- "Instead, attention focused on the symbolism of a Greek premier going to the seminary, on the feast day for St. Photios the Great, who founded a monastery on the site in the ninth century, when it was at the heart of the Hellenic world."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φώτιος (Phṓtios).