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Hellenic

//həˈlɛnɪk// adj, name

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).
  3. 3
    Of or derived from Ancient Greek. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 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.
Noun
  1. 1
    the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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