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 a prefix in Greek. Many Greek affixes such as "anti-" and "-ic" have become productive in English, combining with arbitrary English words: "antichoice", "Fascistic". Some portmanteau words in English have led to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek, "e.g." "-athon" or "-a-thon" ("walkathon", from "walk" and "(mar)athon") and "-nomics" ("Reaganomics", from "Reagan" and "(eco)nomics"). Some Greek words were borrowed through Arabic and then Romance. Many are learned: "alchemy" ("al-" + χημεία or χημία), "elixir" ("al-" + ξήριον), "alembic" ("al-" + ἄμβιξ); but others are popular: "botargo" (ᾠοτάριχον), "tajine" (τάγηνον), and possibly "quintal" (κεντηνάριον <