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Graecity
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Græcity
English
Alternative forms
en Græcity Grecity
Also with initial lower-case en g.
Etymology
An adaptation of the en la-lat Graecitās the Greek language.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡɹiːsɪtɪ/ RP
en /ˈɡɹiːsɪti/ UK
Noun
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en obsolete Adoption of Greek naming and/or the Greek language.
en Hellenization
1845, O.T. Dobbin (tr.), D. Diodati (aut.), “Dominici Diodati I. C. Neapolitani, De Christo Græce Loquente Exercitatio” in The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Third Series: № I (Whole Number: LVII), art. vii, § 8, r_MDAAAAQAAJ 175 Graecity:
The territory and towns of Judæa…from the period of the Maccabees dated the era of their Græcity (suam receperunt Græcitatem).
Greek (especially linguistically Greek) character or style.
en 1969 Journal of Tamil Studies I, № 1, V7cnAAAAMAAJ 57 Graecity [Hebrew] now possesses a series of prefixes to translate such elements as mono-, di-, tri-, sur-, sub-, inter-, etc., partly even simulating the Latinity or Graecity of the European morphemes by using Aramaic elements.
en 1995 J. Høyrup As Regards the Humanities… t3UoAQAAIAAJ 11 Graecity The overall climate of the Old Babylonian scribe school was as repressive as that seventeenth to nineteenth century Latin school which inculcated “Latinity” or “Graecity” into the sore backs of future priests and officials.
1998, R. Kuin, Chamber Music, e.n. 24 to ch. 2, 7O9iUTUQDR0C 247 graecity:
The k in skope is in effect a marker of graecity, and as such conserves the original Greek seme of sight.
en 2006 R.S. Price Homeric Whispers x G4sYfFuSfekC 235 Graecity A revised understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey…raises two…inescapable questions, namely: first, how did these works come into the Hellenic World? and, second, how did these works…become the very quintessence of Graecity?
en
en collectively Greek texts and other language materials, regarded as a en corpus.
en 2013 J. Kramer The ancient languages of Greek and Latin Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography • Supplementary Volume pt VII, ch. xxxviii, § 4.4.2, 5PfbBgAAQBAJ 629 629/2 graecity Special areas of the Greek lexicon were worked on by specialists; the graecity treated was exactly described: the complete lexicon of Greek, including inscriptions and papyri until and including the sixth century AD, was to be recorded.
ibidem, 5PfbBgAAQBAJ 630 630/2 graecity:
When it will be finished, the DGE will be the largest and most reliable dictionary of antique graecity.
Translations
adoption of Greek naming and/or the Greek language
(linguistically) Greek character or style
Greek texts and other language materials, as a corpus
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