hellenic
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of hellenic
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
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adj
- Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek culture and civilization before the Hellenistic period.
- Of or pertaining to Hellas (Greece) or the Hellenes (Greeks).
- (not-comparable)Of or derived from Ancient Greek.
name
- The Greek language and its dialects from the earliest records (Linear B inscriptions, about 1600-1300 B.C.E.) to the present Modern Greek.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). By surface analysis, Hellen + -ic. First attested in c. 1640.
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