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Eftychia Stavrianopoulou
Eutychia (), phonetically transliterated as Eftychia or Eftichia () is a Greek female given name, meaning "happiness". It is derived from the Greek words εὖ (good) and τύχη (luck). The diminutive Effie is a pet form of Eftychia. Notable people with the given name include: * Eftychia Karagianni (born 1973), Greek water polo player and Olympic medalist * Eftichia Michailidou (born 1977), Greek footballer * Eftichia Papagianopoulos (1893–1972), Greek lyricist * Eftychia Papavasilopoulou Eftychia Pappa-Papavasilopoulou (; born October 3, 1981, in New York, New York, United States) is a female Greek-American diver, who specialized in individual and synchronized platform events. At age nineteen, Papavasilopoulou made her official d ... (born 1981), Greek-American diver * Effy Vayena (born 1972), Greek and Swiss bioethicist See also * Eutychia {{given name Greek feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effie
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Efthymia (Greek: Ευθυμία), Eftychia (Greek: Ευτυχία), or Euphemia (Greek: Ευφημία). Notable people with the name include: Women * Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager * Effie Boggess (1927–2021), American politician * Effie Cardale (1873–1960), New Zealand community and welfare worker * Effie Cherry (1869–1944), American performer, part of the Cherry Sisters touring vaudeville act * Effie Crockett (1857–1940), American actress * Euphemia Effie Ellsler (1855–1942), American stage and film actress * Euphemia Effie Germon (1845–1914), American stage actress * Euphemia Effie Gray (1828–1897), Scottish model, married to John Ruskin and John Everett Millais * Effie Hotchkiss, American pioneering motorcyclist in 1915 * Effie Mae Martin Howard, real name of Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006), African-American quiltmaker * Effie McCollum Jones (1869–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eftychia Karagianni
Eftychia Karagianni (, born 10 October 1973) is a female Greek water polo player and Olympic silver medalist with the Greece women's national water polo team. She received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in 2004 Athens. She received a gold medal with the Greece women's national water polo team at the 2005 FINA Women's Water Polo World League in Kirishi Kirishi (, ) is a town and the administrative center of Kirishsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volkhov River, southeast of St. Petersburg. Population: It was previously known as ''Soltsy'' (unti ..., where she scored 19 goals. See also * List of Olympic medalists in water polo (women) References External links * * 1973 births Living people Greek female water polo players 21st-century Greek sportswomen Olympiacos women's water polo team players Olympic water polo players for Greece Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eftichia Michailidou
Eftichia "Efi" Michailidou (born 20 September 1977) is a Greek retired football midfielder who played for the Greece women's national football team. She competed for Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes .... At the club level, she played for Kavala 86. References External links * * 1977 births Living people Greek women's footballers 21st-century Greek sportswomen Place of birth missing (living people) Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Greece Women's association football midfielders Greece women's international footballers {{Greece-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eftichia Papagianopoulos
Eftichia Papagianopoulos (), also spelled as Eftihia Papagianopoulou (1893 – 7 January 1972), was a Greek lyricist. She was born in Aydın near İzmir in Ottoman Empire in 1893. She left İzmir in 1919 prior to the Greco-Turkish War. She emigrated to Greece and settled permanently in Athens. She wrote the lyrics to many popular Greek songs, collaborating with composers like Vassilis Tsitsanis, Apostolos Kaldaras and Manos Hadjidakis; however, she didn't achieve major fame famous until her death in 1972. Her great contribution to Greek music through her exceptional ability in lyricism wasn't broadly known and recognized, although many of the successful songs of the 1950s and 1960s had been written by her. A book written by lyricist and journalist Lefteris Papadopoulos, who was a friend of Eftichia during the last years of her life, helped to increase recognition for her work. Compositions Many well-known songs have lyrics by Eftichia Papagianopoulos, including: * ''Ta kavour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eftychia Papavasilopoulou
Eftychia Pappa-Papavasilopoulou (; born October 3, 1981, in New York, New York, United States) is a female Greek-American diver, who specialized in individual and synchronized platform events. At age nineteen, Papavasilopoulou made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty-seventh in the Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform, women's platform event, with a score of 236.79. Papavasilopoulou represented her host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed for individual and synchronized platform events. She reached into the semi-finals of the Diving at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre platform, women's platform event, where she was able to perform an astonishing dive with a total score of 463.89, finishing only in seventeenth place. She also teamed up with her partner Florentia Sfakianou, and cheered by the home crowd for an eighth-place finish in the Diving at the 2004 Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effy Vayena
Eftychia ("Effy") Vayena (born 1972) is a Greek and Swiss bioethicist. Since 2017 she has held the position of chair of bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, ETH Zurich. She is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. Early life and education Vayena was born in Greece and grew up on the island of Lefkada. Vayena received a B.A. in history from the University of Athens, Greece and an M.Sc. in history of science, technology & medicine from Imperial College, University of London. Her master's research was on In vitro fertilisation where she examined the impact of new developments and the ethical questions. She then moved to the United States where she earned a Ph.D. in the social history of medicine from the University of Minnesota. Career After her doctoral work, Vayena joined the World Health Organization (WHO) where she worked from 2000 until 2007. While there she led some of the organisation's work on the ethics of reproductive technol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eutychia (other)
Eutychia is a female name of Greek origin which derives from the Ancient Greek name Εὐτύχιος (Eutychios), which originated from the Ancient Greek adjective εὐτυχής (eutyches) "the one whose fortune favors". Eutychia may refer to: * ''Eutychia'' (now ''Zygaena''), a genus of moths in the family Zygaenidae * One of the Daughters of Philip of the Biblical Philip the Evangelist, according to Eusebius * The mother of Saint Lucy, a third/fourth century martyr * Another name of Euphrosyne In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Euphrosyne (; ) is a goddess, one of the three Charites. She was sometimes named Euthymia () or Eutychia (). Family According to Hesiod, Euphrosyne and her sisters Thalia and Aglaea are the daughters ..., one of the Greek Charities and goddess of good cheer, joy, and mirth * Eftychia, modern Greek given name, including list of people with this name {{Disambiguation Given names of Greek language origin Greek feminine given names Femin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Feminine Given Names
Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek **Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC) **Ancient Greek, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC **Koine Greek, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity **Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople **Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD) *Greek alphabet, script used to write the Greek language *Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity * Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD *Greek mythology, a body of myths o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
