Hellas
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɛləs
Proper nounEdit
Hellas
- 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.
- 1999, Sean McMeekin, "The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships", Literary Review, March:
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TranslationsEdit
Greek name for Greece
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CzechEdit
Proper nounEdit
Hellas f
- Hellas (Greece, especially Ancient Greece)
- Synonym: Helada
Related termsEdit
- See Helén
Further readingEdit
- Hellas in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- Hellas in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Proper nounEdit
Hellas n
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Norwegian NynorskEdit
Proper nounEdit
Hellas n