Hellenic

Meaning

Adj

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

Name

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

Synonyms

Greek

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Grecian

Hellenic language

Hellenistic

Graeco-Roman

Hellenian

Greco-Roman

classic

classical

Hellenistical

greek

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the Greek language

hellenic

Translations

ellenico

ελληνικός

hellénique

hellène

greco

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grec

Helleens

helénico

griego

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hel·lènic

hellenisch

grec

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grego

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Ελληνικός

griechisch

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/həˈlɛnɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or relating to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”), equivalent to Hellen + -ic.
The English term is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek formed in the 17th-century, attested from ca. 1640.

Sentences

It is a feeder to the Combined Counties League and the Hellenic League .