Hellenisation

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Hellenization (North America)

Noun edit

Hellenisation (plural Hellenisations)

(British spelling) The adoption of Greek manners and culture
(British spelling) The act of causing a culture to become Greek
(British spelling) The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character,^[1] (cf. Latinize) such as by coining a word with Greek roots to express a concept that otherwise might be expressed in modern vernacular
- 2007, Miranda Anderson, editor, The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural History of the Mirror‎^[1], Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 32:
  The practice of divination using mirrors was called Catoptromancy, a name derived from the Greek word katroptron, which means “mirror”, or “reflection”; [emphasis added]
- 2003, Patrick Hanks, editor, Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44, column 2:
  Antes (402) German: […] Humanistic Hellenization of Blume, literally ‘flower’, with reference to the Greek vocabulary word anthos ‘flower’.

Synonyms edit

Greekification

Translations edit

adoption of Greek culture

Arabic: تهلين
Finnish: hellenisaatio

causing a culture to become Greek

Finnish: hellenisaatio

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Spanish: ^{(please verify)} helenización (es) f

References edit

^ Murray, J.A.H. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (2 vols). Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1971. →ISBN