Graecicize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of Grecize (to translate into Greek or render in a Greek form). rare, transitive

    "In this period it enlarged its vocabulary to deal with new tools, institutions and ideas introduced by Hellenistic Greek and Latin, the latter through the medium of Graecicized Latin words, and words created in Greek for Roman institutions and concepts."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize. alt-of

    "1883, F. Warrington Eastlake, "Equine Deities", in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XI, R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama. For not only was Yauk a sun-god of the Sabaeans, but Set, under the title of Tebha, graecicized Typhon, was a personification of the destructive energy of the great orb."

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"In this period it enlarged its vocabulary to deal with new tools, institutions and ideas introduced by Hellenistic Greek and Latin, the latter through the medium of Graecicized Latin words, and words created in Greek for Roman institutions and concepts."

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