graecicize

See also: Graecicize

English

Verb

graecicize (third-person singular simple present graecicizes, present participle graecicizing, simple past and past participle graecicized)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize
   • 1883, F. Warrington Eastlake, "Equine Deities", in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XI, R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama.

     For not only was Yauk a sun-god of the Sabaeans, but Set, under the title of Tebha, graecicized Typhon, was a personification of the destructive energy of the great orb.

   • 1935, Michael Huxley, editor, The Geographical Magazine, volume I:

     ...Philipp Melanchthon, who, in honour of classical learning graecicized his German name of Schwarzerd.

   • 1984, Antoine Berman, The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany (L'Épreuve de l'étranger), State University of New York Press, Albany (S. Heyvaert, trans., 1992).

     If Hölderlin had merely "dialectized" or "graecicized" his poetic language, its balancing double dimension and its differentiating power would disappear...

   • 1989, Chaim Rabin, “Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew”, in Florian Coulmas, editor, Language Adaptation, Cambridge University Press:

     "Arimanios" seems to be a graecicized form of "Ahriman," the evil cosmic principle in Zoroastrian teaching.