Hellas

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛləs

Proper noun

Hellas

1. Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.
   • 1999, Sean McMeekin, "The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships", Literary Review, March:

     Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.

Derived terms

• Helladic

Related terms

• Hellen
• Hellene
• Hellenic
• Hellenical
• Hellenically
• Hellenisation
• Hellenise
• Helleniser
• Hellenism
• Hellenist
• Hellenistic
• Hellenistical
• Hellenistically
• Hellenization
• Hellenize
• Hellenizer

 

Translations

Greek name for Greece

• Armenian: Հելլադա (Hellada)
• Czech: Helada f
• Esperanto: Helaso
• Finnish: Hellas (fi)
• French: Grèce (fr) f
• German: Hellas (de) n (poetic), Griechenland (de) n
• Greek: Ελλάδα (el) f (Elláda), Ελλάς (el) f (Ellás) (formal, literary, Katharevousa), Ελληνική Δημοκρατία f (Ellinikí Dimokratía)
• Latin: Hellas f, Graecia (la) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hellas (no) n, Grekenland n (archaic)

  Nynorsk: Hellas (nn) n, Grekenland n (archaic)

• Portuguese: Hélade (pt) f
• Russian: Элла́да (ru) f (Elláda)
• Rusyn: Ела́да f (Eláda)
• Volapük: Grikän (vo)

Anagrams

• as hell

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Czech

Proper noun

Hellas f

1. Hellas (Greece, especially Ancient Greece)

   Synonym: Helada

Related terms

• See Helén

Further reading

• Hellas in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Hellas in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Hellas n

1. Greece

Related terms

• gammelgresk
• greker
• gresk
• hellener
• hellensk

See also

• Greeklish

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Hellas n

1. Greece

Related terms

• grekar
• gresk
• hellenar
• hellensk