Ἑλληνισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) +‎ -ισμός (-ismós, abstract noun suffix): literally, “Greekism”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.niz.mós/ → /el.li.nizˈmos/ → /e.li.nizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.niz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)el.le̝.nizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /el.li.nizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /el.li.nizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.li.nizˈmos/

Noun

Ἑλληνισμός • (Hellēnismós) m (genitive Ἑλληνισμοῦ); third declension

1. imitation of the Greeks: Hellenism
2. paganism

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Ἑλληνισμός; τοῦ Ἑλληνισμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ἑλληνισμός ho Hellēnismós	τὼ Ἑλληνισμώ tṑ Hellēnismṓ	οἱ Ἑλληνισμοί hoi Hellēnismoí
Genitive	τοῦ Ἑλληνισμοῦ toû Hellēnismoû	τοῖν Ἑλληνισμοῖν toîn Hellēnismoîn	τῶν Ἑλληνισμῶν tôn Hellēnismôn
Dative	τῷ Ἑλληνισμῷ tôi Hellēnismôi	τοῖν Ἑλληνισμοῖν toîn Hellēnismoîn	τοῖς Ἑλληνισμοῖς toîs Hellēnismoîs
Accusative	τὸν Ἑλληνισμόν tòn Hellēnismón	τὼ Ἑλληνισμώ tṑ Hellēnismṓ	τοὺς Ἑλληνισμούς toùs Hellēnismoús
Vocative	Ἑλληνισμέ Hellēnismé	Ἑλληνισμώ Hellēnismṓ	Ἑλληνισμοί Hellēnismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: Hellēnismus
  • English: Hellenism

References

• “Ἑλληνισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἑλληνισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Ἑλληνισμός - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.