Hellenisation
English
Alternative forms
- Hellenization (North America)
Noun
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
- Miranda Anderson[2]
- Divination by mirrors was called catoptromancy, a name derived from the Greek word katroptron, which means "mirror", or "reflection"... (emphasis added)
- Patrick Hanks[3]
- Antes German: ... Humanistic Hellenization of Blume, literally "flower", with reference to the Greek vocabulary word Anthos, "flower".
- Miranda Anderson[2]
Translations
adoption of Greek culture
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causing a culture to become Greek
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References
- ^ Murray, J.A.H. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (2 vols). Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1971. →ISBN
- ^ Miranda Anderson. The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural History of the Mirror [1] pub: Scholars Press 2007 →ISBN
- ^ Hanks, Patrick. Dictionary of American Family Names. [2] Oxford University Press 2003 →ISBN p 44
Further reading
- “Hellenization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Hellenization, hellenization, Hellenisation, hellenisation at Google Ngram Viewer