Ἑλληνικός

See also: ελληνικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.ni.kós/ → /el.li.niˈkos/ → /e.li.niˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hel.lɛː.ni.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)el.le̝.niˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /el.li.niˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /el.li.niˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.li.niˈkos/

Adjective

Ἑλληνῐκός • (Hellēnikós) m (feminine Ἑλληνῐκή, neuter Ἑλληνῐκόν); first/second declension

1. Hellenic, Greek
2. like the Greeks

Declension

First and second declension of Ἑλληνῐκός; Ἑλληνῐκή; Ἑλληνῐκόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		Ἑλληνῐκός Hellēnikós	Ἑλληνῐκή Hellēnikḗ	Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnikón		Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnikṓ	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ Hellēnikā́	Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnikṓ		Ἑλληνῐκοί Hellēnikoí	Ἑλληνῐκαί Hellēnikaí	Ἑλληνῐκᾰ́ Hellēniká
Genitive		Ἑλληνῐκοῦ Hellēnikoû	Ἑλληνῐκῆς Hellēnikês	Ἑλληνῐκοῦ Hellēnikoû		Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnikoîn	Ἑλληνῐκαῖν Hellēnikaîn	Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnikoîn		Ἑλληνῐκῶν Hellēnikôn	Ἑλληνῐκῶν Hellēnikôn	Ἑλληνῐκῶν Hellēnikôn
Dative		Ἑλληνῐκῷ Hellēnikôi	Ἑλληνῐκῇ Hellēnikêi	Ἑλληνῐκῷ Hellēnikôi		Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnikoîn	Ἑλληνῐκαῖν Hellēnikaîn	Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnikoîn		Ἑλληνῐκοῖς Hellēnikoîs	Ἑλληνῐκαῖς Hellēnikaîs	Ἑλληνῐκοῖς Hellēnikoîs
Accusative		Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnikón	Ἑλληνῐκήν Hellēnikḗn	Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnikón		Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnikṓ	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ Hellēnikā́	Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnikṓ		Ἑλληνῐκούς Hellēnikoús	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ς Hellēnikā́s	Ἑλληνῐκᾰ́ Hellēniká
Vocative		Ἑλληνῐκέ Hellēniké	Ἑλληνῐκή Hellēnikḗ	Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnikón		Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnikṓ	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ Hellēnikā́	Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnikṓ		Ἑλληνῐκοί Hellēnikoí	Ἑλληνῐκαί Hellēnikaí	Ἑλληνῐκᾰ́ Hellēniká
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		Ἑλληνῐκῶς Hellēnikôs				Ἑλληνῐκώτερος Hellēnikṓteros				Ἑλληνῐκώτᾰτος Hellēnikṓtatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ελληνικός (ellinikós)
• → French: hellénique
• → Spanish: helénico
• → Catalan: hel·lènic

Further reading

• “Ἑλληνικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἑλληνικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Ἑλληνικός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1673 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • greece idem, page 372.