It's like they have a different word for everything.
Well.... now that you mention it...
My college degree is in Ancient Greek... no... seriously...
They do have a word for everything. For instance, for the most common uses of the English word "love", the Greeks had at least three separate words. The average English-speaking person has a vocabulary of under 2000 words. The average Greek-speaking person at the time of Christ had a vocabulary of some 6500 words.
So, when Homer used the word "rhododactylos", it is translated into English as "dawn". What you lose is that fact that the Greek literally translates "rosy-fingered" describing the rays of the morning sun breaking across the sky from behind the horizon.
Of course, it could also describe the hand of a teenage boy on a lonely Friday night...
Did I say that out loud