Hellas

English Etymology en grc Ἑλλάς Greece. en Ellada. Pronunciation en /ˈhɛləs/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hellas.wav Southern England en ɛləs 2 Proper noun Greece; specifically Ancient Greece. en 1999 Sean McMeekin The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships Literary Review March Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas. Related terms en Helladic Hellen Hellene Hellenic Hellenical Hellenically Hellenisation Hellenization Hellenise Hellenize Helleniser Hellenizer Hellenism Hellenist Hellenistic Hellenistical Hellenistically Translations Greek name for Greece Armenian: hy Հելլադա Carpathian Rusyn: rue Ела́да f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 希臘 hei1 laap6 Eastern Min: cdo 希臘 Hĭ-lăk Hakka: hak 希臘 Hî-lia̍p Hokkien: nan-hbl 希臘 Hi-lia̍p Mandarin: cmn 希臘 Xīlà Wu: wuu 希臘 Czech: cs Helada f Danish: da Hellas n (ancient Greece), da Grækenland n Esperanto: eo Helaso Finnish: fi Hellas French: fr Hellade f, fr Grèce f Middle French: frm Hellade f German: de Hellas n poetic, de Griechenland n Greek: el Ελλάδα f, el Ελλάς f formal, literary, Katharevousa Hindi: hi हेलस Italian: it Grecia f Latin: la Hellas f, la Graecia f Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Hellas n, nb Grekenland n archaic Nynorsk: nn Hellas n, nn Grekenland n archaic Portuguese: pt Hélade f Romanian: ro Elada Russian: ru Элла́да f Volapük: vo Grikän Anagrams en aehlls as hell Czech Pronunciation Proper noun f helladský en Hellas Greece, especially Ancient Greece cs Helada Declension f.decllemma:Hellada Related terms See cs Helén Further reading Latin Etymology la Hellas :bor grc:Ἑλλάς + 1 Pronunciation Hellas Proper noun Hellas/Hellad<3> f la poetic la Graecia Greece la female Ancient Greek la Hor. Sermones 2 3 276 278 Modo, inquam, Hellade percussa Marius cum praecipitat se cerritus fuit? The other day, for instance, when Marius killed Hellas and then flung himself headlong, was he crazy? Declension Hellas/Hellad<3> Descendants en Hellas 1 de Hellas 1 it Ellade 1 frm Hellade 1 pl Hellada 1 pt Hélade 1 es Hélade 1 References Hellas 739 Norwegian Bokmål no:Hellas thumb|The location of Greece in Europe. Alternative forms nb Grekenland archaic; usual Norwegian name until 1932 Etymology nb el Ελλάς Greece, the formal Katharevousa name in use when the Norwegian form was officially adopted in 1932, replacing nb Grekenland. The Greek form is from nb grc Ἑλλάς Greece, of uncertain origin. Parallel borrowings and adaptations include nn Hellas, da Hellas Ancient Greece, de Hellas Greece; poetic, fr Hellade Greece; literary, pl Hellada and ru Эллада Greece; poetic or endonymic. Pronunciation nb /¹ˈhɛlː.as/ [ˈhɛ̀lː.ǎs] nb ɛlːas 2 nb Hel las Proper noun nb proper noun Greece; nb country r/Southern Europe cont/Europe Greece, with Aten as its capital. nb Vi reiste til Hellas i sommerferien. We travelled to Greece during the summer holiday. nb 16 September 2021 Hellas FN-sambandet https://fn.no/Land/hellas Hellas er en republikk i Sør-Europa, på den sørligste delen av Balkanhalvøya. Greece is a republic in Southern Europe, on the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula. https://web.archive.org/web/20260930155141/https://fn.no/Land/hellas 30 September 2026 Usage notes The official Norwegian long-form name used by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is Republikken Hellas (“the Republic of Greece”). Related terms nb hellener Hellene; ancient Greek nb hellenisme Hellenism nb hellenist Hellenist nb hellenistisk Hellenistic nb hellensk Hellenic; ancient Greek See also nb gammelgresk Ancient Greek nb greker Greek person nb gresk Greek nb nygresk Modern Greek References nb 2016 Lesarspørsmål Språknytt 1 3–4 https://www.sprakradet.no/globalassets/vi-og-vart/publikasjoner/spraknytt/2016/12016/spraknytt-1-2016.pdf 20 June 2026 Gorm K. Gaare Hvor ble det av Grekenland? Nasjonalbiblioteket https://www.nb.no/historier-fra-samlingen/hvor-ble-det-av-grekenland/ 2 August 2026 25 June 2026 Kirsti des Bouvrie Thorsen; Sten Lundbo Hellas Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Hellas 2 August 2026 Land Norge har diplomatiske forbindelser med Regjeringen.no https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/ud/dep/diplomatiske-forbindelser-og-protokoll/norske-utenriksstasjoner/id2991088/ 2 August 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260929013054/https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/ud/dep/diplomatiske-forbindelser-og-protokoll/norske-utenriksstasjoner/id2991088/ 29 September 2026 Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Etymology Borrowed as part of a language planning policy, in 1932, from nn el Ελλάς, the Katharevousa form in use as Greek endonym at the time. This new form was intended to replace the conflicting forms in both Bokmål (Grekenland and Grekerland) and Nynorsk (Grekarland and Grekland) as part of the government's Samnorsk policy during the 1930s, which aimed to bring Bokmål and Nynorsk closer to each other, with the end goal of eventually merging them. Since the Bokmål form Grekenland was a Low German borrowing inherited via Danish da Grækenland, it was excluded from Nynorsk in favour of Norwegian forms. Meanwhile, the Nynorsk form Grekarland was incompatible with Bokmål, while Grekerland was incompatible with Nynorsk (since "a Greek" is "ein grekar" in Nynorsk and "en greker" in Bokmål). Although the Samnorsk policy was abandoned by later governments, and the Katharevousa form el Ελλάς was superseded as Greek endonym by Standard Modern Greek el Ελλάδα, the Samnorsk form Hellas remains the most widely used form in both Bokmål and Nynorsk, while the old nonstandard forms are used archaizingly in some contexts. Proper noun nn proper noun n nn Greece Q41 Related terms nn gamalgresk grekar gresk hellenar hellensk hellenist hellenistisk hellenisme nygresk