Hellenisation

English

Alternative forms

• Hellenization (North America)

Noun

Hellenisation (plural Hellenisations) (British spelling)

1. The adoption of Greek manners and culture
2. The act of causing a culture to become Greek
3. The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character, (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

• Greekification

Translations

adoption of Greek culture

• Arabic: تهلين
• Finnish: hellenisaatio

causing a culture to become Greek

• Finnish: hellenisaatio

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Translations to be checked

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

Further reading

• “Hellenization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Hellenization, hellenization, Hellenisation, hellenisation at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.