Hellenic Definition
hĕ-lĕnĭk
adjective
Of the Hellenes; Greek.
Webster's New World
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.)
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noun
The language of ancient Greece.
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Synonyms:
- Hellenic language
- greek
pronoun
The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 BCE) to the present Modern Greek.
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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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