hellenic
4 synonyms for hellenic, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Relating to Greek culture and civilisation as they were before the Hellenistic era.
Synonyms
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Etymology
A learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). By surface analysis it is Hellen + -ic, and it is first attested around 1640.
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