Hellenize
verbEtymology
From Ancient Greek ἑλληνίζω (hellēnízō, “to speak Greek, to make Greek, to become Greek”), from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”).
- derived from ἑλληνίζω
Definitions
To use the language and culture of the ancient Greeks, to become Hellenistic.
To render Greek in character, language, culture, or civilization.
The neighborhood
- synonymGreekify
- neighborHelladic
- neighborHellas
- neighborHellen
- neighborHellene
- neighborHellenic
- neighborHellenism
- neighborHellenist
- neighborHellenistic
- neighborHellenistical
- neighbormedize
Derived
Hellenisation, Hellenization, Helleniser, Hellenizer, dehellenise, dehellenize
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Hellenize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA