When I was new here I made a couple of blogs on the etymology of some english words.

In them I basically claimed that they all derived from Greek.

I dont remember all the words I used but the correction is that the above is not necessarily correct.

While the english words I used and the greek words I claimed they come from are etymologically related, that still doesnt mean that the first derived from the second.

Many times they both just derive from the same language from which Latin (which is a great source for the vocabulary of english) and Greek derive which is the Indo-European proto-language linguists believe to be the mother-language of those two languages (and of asian Indian I think).

It is true that Latin appears to "steal" words from Ancient Greek and that is a conclusion due to their resemblance, mostly when it comes to vocabulary (not that all or most of the vocabulary of Latin is like that). In fact there still are some people who would claim that Latin is some sort of Ancient Greek dialect (in exaggeration probably to suggest that Latin borrowed a lot of stuff from Ancient Greek and that it could be considered a dialect).

I have not researched the whole thing to say what is most likely (whether Latin borrows stuff from Greek or that it derives from the same mother language which inevitably means they will have some similarities) but the thing is its still the case that some "common" vocabulary is due to the second: that they are "sister"-languages.

Anyway bottom line is that both are reasonable explanations and both are true (one for some words and the other for others) but I dont know for a fact which is mostly responsible for the resemblance and which one is less responsible for it.

Thats all.

EDIT: The words that I think derive directly from Greek are words of English terminology of various sciences.