Hellenic meaning
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 language of ancient Greece.
noun
Of or relating to the ancient Hellenes, their language, or their history; Greek.
adjective
The branch of the Indo-European language family that consists only of Greek.
noun
Of the Hellenes; Greek.
adjective
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Of or relating to the ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
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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