Hellenic

Hel·len·ic

of the Hellenes; Greek
of the history, language, or culture of the ancient Greeks, specif. from the late 8th century to the death of Alexander the Great (323 )

Origin of Hellenic

Classical Greek Hell?nikos from Hell?nes, the Greeks

the language of ancient Greece
Greek (noun)

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Hellenic

adjective

Of or relating to the ancient Hellenes, their language, or their history; Greek.

noun

The branch of the Indo-European language family that consists only of Greek.

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Adjective

Of or relating to the ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
Of or relating to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).

Proper noun

The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 BCE) to the present Modern Greek.

Anagrams

chenille

Origin

From Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellenikos, “of or relating to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellas, “Greece”).

The English term is a learned 17th-century formation, attested from ca. 1640.

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Sentence Examples

We detect the dawn of that spirit which afterwards animated Hellenic art.
At Alexandria in particular Alexander provided for a Jewish colony which soon became Hellenic enough in speech to require a translation of the Law.
Alexander had come to merge the characters of Macedonian king and Hellenic captain-general, with which he had set out, in that of Oriental despot (Spieker.
Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.
The foundations also of the moles that separate the harbours are of Hellenic work, though the existing moles were erected by the Knights of St John.

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