Greekify

English

Etymology

Greek +‎ -ify

Verb

Greekify (third-person singular simple present Greekifies, present participle Greekifying, simple past and past participle Greekified)

1. to make Greek.
   • 2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     Although he was an opponent of the populares, no one did more than Cicero to Latinize Greek rhetoric and Greekify Roman oratory.

   • 2015, Judy Petsonk, Queen of the Jews: Salome Alexandra, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 281:

     Led by his son Judah the Hammer (Judah Maccabee), the rebels fought a guerrilla war, not only against the Syrian army of occupation, but also against the Jewish priests and nobles who were trying to Greekify the Jewish religion.

   • 2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:

     The guards in the king's retinue had tried to Greekify their helmets by sewing on pieces of boar tusk, though the tusky chunks flapped around like hangnails.

Synonyms

• Hellenize