Four Marks of the Church adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "general", "universal". It is associated with the Greek adverb ("katholou"), meaning "according to the whole", "entirely", or "in general", a combination of the preposition meaning "according to" and the adjective meaning "whole". Applied to the church, the adjective "catholic" means that in the church the wholeness of the Christian faith, full and complete, all-embracing, and with nothing lacking, is proclaimed to all people without excluding any part of the faith or any class or group of people. The adjective can be applied not only to the church as spread throughout the world but also to each local
English words of Greek origin Many words from the Hebrew Bible were transmitted to the western languages through the Greek of the Septuagint, often without morphological regularization: "rabbi" (ραββί), "seraphim" (σεραφείμ, σεραφίμ), "paradise" (παράδεισος < Hebrew < Persian), "pharaoh" (Φαραώ < Hebrew < Egyptian). Many Greek words, especially those borrowed through the literary tradition, are recognizable as such from their spelling. Latin had standard orthographies for Greek borrowings: Greek was written as 'y', as 'ph', as 'c', rough breathings as 'h', "etc." These conventions (which originally reflected pronunciation) have carried over into English and other languages with historical orthography (like French). They make it possible