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Hellenic.

Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.

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Meaning & usage

adj/həˈlɛnɪk/
  1. Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.

  2. Of or pertaining to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).

  3. Of or derived from Ancient Greek.

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Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). By surface analysis, Hellen + -ic. First attested in c. 1640.

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

Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). By surface analysis, Hellen + -ic. First attested in c. 1640.

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