User:Spiros

Spiros Doikas

Spiros Doikas

Spiros Doikas is the founder and chief editor of lsj.gr. You can read some of his papers regarding the work carried out on lsj.gr.

Spiros read English at Manchester Metropolitan University. His postgraduate studies include Machine Translation at UMIST and IoL's Diploma in Translation. He has been working as a translator since 1995, initially as a literary translator and then as a technical translator specializing in software and IT.

He has a keen interest in translation technologies and has been teaching translation tools and localization in meta|φραση School of Translation Studies since 2003. His research interests and skills include multilingual web site development, online terminology management systems, wiki and forum software. In 2001 he created translatum.gr, a Greek translation portal providing, among other things, terminological assistance in a customized version of an open source forum platform. He is a member of the Hellenic Society of Terminology. He is passionate about QA and improving lexicographical resources, so LSJ did seem to fit the bill. As did IATE. And Woodhouse. And...

Favourite Ancient Greek words/phrases

1. ὁ ὑπεράπειρον ἔχων τῆς ἀγαθότητος τὸ ἀνεξιχνίαστον πέλαγος (who possesses an infinite and inscrutable sea of goodness)
2. ἁβροπενθής
3. ἀγρυξία
4. ἀθελξίνοος
5. αἰένυπνος
6. ἀλγεσίθυμος
7. ἀμφιδονέω
8. ἀμφικυνέω
9. ἀναθάλλω
10. ἀρμενοποιέω
11. ἀστρόβλητος
12. ἀφοβοποιός
13. ἀπόθεσις τοῦ σκηνώματός μου (compare with: shuffle off this mortal coil)
14. ἀπολισθάνω
15. ἐγερσίνοος
16. ἐνωτίζομαι
17. ἐπαυρίζω
18. ἐρωτοπλοέω
19. ἐννοσσοποιέομαι
20. εὐάγκαλος
21. ἠνορέη
22. θελγεσίμυθος
23. Κυματολήγη
24. μελάνυδρος
25. νερτερόμορφος
26. νηπενθής
27. νυκτηρεφής
28. νυκτιγενέτωρ
29. ὀλβιοδαίμων
30. ὀρθονύσταγμος
31. ὀρφνῆθεν‎‎
32. ὀφθαλμοβόλος
33. ὀψοδαίδαλος
34. ῥοδόπηχυς
35. συμπαρανεκρώμενος
36. συνήδομαι
37. συγχαλάω
38. φαεσίμβροτος
39. φαυλοτριβής
40. φθισίκηρος
41. φιλοστοργία
42. φρενοθελγής
43. τὸ μόνον τῆς λύπης ἐξάλειπτρον

Favourite naughty Ancient Greek words/phrases

1. ἀλλ' οὐκ ἂν μαχέσαιτο· χέσαιτο γάρ, εἰ μαχέσαιτο
2. φιλοκαλοῦμέν τε γὰρ μετ' εὐτελείας καὶ φιλοσοφοῦμεν ἄνευ μαλακίας
3. μουνόκωλος
4. καυλοπώλης
5. κωλοβαθριστής