Ἑλληνικός

See also: ελληνικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

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 • (Hellēnĭkós) 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 Hellēnĭkós	Ἑλληνῐκή Hellēnĭkḗ	Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnĭkón		Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnĭkṓ	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ Hellēnĭkā́	Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnĭkṓ		Ἑλληνῐκοί Hellēnĭkoí	Ἑλληνῐκαί Hellēnĭkaí	Ἑλληνῐκᾰ́ Hellēnĭkắ
Genitive		Ἑλληνῐκοῦ Hellēnĭkoû	Ἑλληνῐκῆς Hellēnĭkês	Ἑλληνῐκοῦ Hellēnĭkoû		Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnĭkoîn	Ἑλληνῐκαῖν Hellēnĭkaîn	Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnĭkoîn		Ἑλληνῐκῶν Hellēnĭkôn	Ἑλληνῐκῶν Hellēnĭkôn	Ἑλληνῐκῶν Hellēnĭkôn
Dative		Ἑλληνῐκῷ Hellēnĭkôi	Ἑλληνῐκῇ Hellēnĭkêi	Ἑλληνῐκῷ Hellēnĭkôi		Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnĭkoîn	Ἑλληνῐκαῖν Hellēnĭkaîn	Ἑλληνῐκοῖν Hellēnĭkoîn		Ἑλληνῐκοῖς Hellēnĭkoîs	Ἑλληνῐκαῖς Hellēnĭkaîs	Ἑλληνῐκοῖς Hellēnĭkoîs
Accusative		Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnĭkón	Ἑλληνῐκήν Hellēnĭkḗn	Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnĭkón		Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnĭkṓ	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ Hellēnĭkā́	Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnĭkṓ		Ἑλληνῐκούς Hellēnĭkoús	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ς Hellēnĭkā́s	Ἑλληνῐκᾰ́ Hellēnĭkắ
Vocative		Ἑλληνῐκέ Hellēnĭké	Ἑλληνῐκή Hellēnĭkḗ	Ἑλληνῐκόν Hellēnĭkón		Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnĭkṓ	Ἑλληνῐκᾱ́ Hellēnĭkā́	Ἑλληνῐκώ Hellēnĭkṓ		Ἑλληνῐκοί Hellēnĭkoí	Ἑλληνῐκαί Hellēnĭkaí	Ἑλληνῐκᾰ́ Hellēnĭkắ
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		Ἑλληνῐκῶς Hellēnĭkôs				Ἑλληνῐκώτερος Hellēnĭkṓteros				Ἑλληνῐκώτᾰτος Hellēnĭkṓtătos
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 (2006–2025)
• 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.