Hellenic

Meanings

Adjective

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

Proper Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• Grecian
• Greek

Origin

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