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On 19/09/2024 06:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> Another one that stuck for me was “metic”, “resident foreigner in a
> Greek city state,” apparently not related to meticulous.

Try 'hermetic' as a related concept. A 'foreigner' in ancient Greek was
someone from another city state, even if that was a city in Greece.
'Greece' did not become an entity until much later.