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What country does the word bizarre come from?
There is an old French word 'biazrre' meaning odd or fantastic which may have derived from a Basque word, 'bizar' meaning a beard, taken from Spanish bearded soldiers who were 'bizzaro' that is angry and fierce
What are nicknames for Odysseus?
odd
Why was it odd that Aphrodite would marry Hephaestus?
It is odd that Aphrodite would marry Hephaestus because when Hephaestus was born his mother Hera saw that Hephaestus was deformed and she cast him off of mount olympus. Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty and Hephaestus is not beautiful in the slightest making it odd that the goddess of beauty would mary one of the more ugly gods.
What is the origin of the word bizare?
Dictionary.com lists the English word 'bizarre' as coming from French sometime around the mid-1600s. Originally meaning "handsome, brave," the French word came to mean "odd, fantastic."Additional etymology reports indicate that the word could have roots in the Italian bizarro, which means "angry, fierce."
Which two seas did ancient Greeks depend on?
The Mediterranean and Black seas, around the littorals of which their 2,000-odd independent city-states were located.
