Hellenic definition

hĕ-lĕnĭk

Of the history, language, or culture of the ancient Greeks, specif. from the late 8th century b.c. to the death of Alexander the Great (323 b.c.)

adjective

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

noun

The language of ancient Greece.

noun

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

adjective

Of the Hellenes; Greek.

adjective

noun

Of or relating to the ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.

adjective

Of or relating to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).

adjective

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

pronoun

Origin of hellenic

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

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

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