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Hellas

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).

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Hellas

  1. Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.
    • 1999 March, Sean McMeekin, “The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships”, in Literary Review:
      Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.

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Czech

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Proper noun

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Hellas f (related adjective helladský)

  1. Hellas (Greece, especially Ancient Greece)
    Synonym: Helada

Declension

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Declension of Hellas (hard feminine irreg-stem)
singular plural
nominative Hellas Hellady
genitive Hellady Hellad
dative Helladě Helladám
accusative Helladu Hellady
vocative Hellado Hellady
locative Helladě Helladách
instrumental Helladou Helladami
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Further reading

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  • “Hellas”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • “Hellas”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás).

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Hellas f sg (genitive Helladis); third declension

  1. (poetic) Synonym of Graecia (“Greece”).
  2. a female given name from Ancient Greek.
    • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Satires 2.3.276:
      Modo, inquam, Hellade percussa Marius cum praecipitat se cerritus fuit?
      The other day, for instance, when Marius killed Hellas and then flung himself headlong, was he crazy?

Declension

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Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Hellas
Genitive Helladis
Dative Helladī
Accusative Helladem
Ablative Hellade
Vocative Hellas

Descendants

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All borrowings:

  • → French: Hellade
  • → Portuguese: Hélade
  • → Spanish: Hélade

References

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  • “Hellas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Hellas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 739.
  • Hellas in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • “Hellas”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Directly borrowed from Greek Ελλάς (Ellás, “Greece”), possibly being influenced by Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”), in 1932 to replace the Danish loanword and German cognate Grekenland as part of a trend to adopt endonyms as Norway was nation-building during the early 20th century and as a compromise during the early stages of the Norwegian language conflict, with Nynorsk and Samnorsk advocates rejecting the existing name and Grekerland, a calque of Swedish Grekland, only working in Bokmål (where Greek is greker, being grekar instead in Nynorsk). In the 1970s, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry attempted to reverse the name change to be more similar to other European countries. Although this movement gained enough momentum to make it to the Language Council of Norway, it was rejected by a majority of the Council.[1]

Proper noun

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Hellas n

  1. Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ “Lesarspørsmål”, in Språknytt‎[1], Oslo: Language Council of Norway (Språkrådet), 2016 January, →ISSN, pages 3-4 (PDF)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

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See #Etymology_2.

Proper noun

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Hellas n

  1. Greece (a country in Southeast Europe)
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