Hellenic
adjEtymology
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.
- learned borrowing from Ἑλληνικός
Definitions
Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic…
Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
Of or pertaining to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).
Of or derived from Ancient Greek.
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The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions,…
The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 B.C.E.) to the present Modern Greek.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at Hellenic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hellenic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at hellenic
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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