Graecicize

graecicize English Alternative forms en Grecicize, en graecicize, en grecicize Verb en transitive rare en Grecize to translate into Greek or render in a Greek form. en 1989 Chaim Rabin Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew Language Adaptation Florian Coulmas Cambridge University Press In this period it enlarged its vocabulary to deal with new tools, institutions and ideas introduced by Hellenistic Greek and Latin, the latter through the medium of Graecicized Latin words, and words created in Greek for Roman institutions and concepts. 2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec; Éditions Peeters, Louvain – Paris. The largely non-Semitic and non-Christian, Graecicizing form of the names of the beings named are not part of the standard repertoire of names invoked in the traditional baptismal context, which suggests that they originated elsewhere. 2013, Samuel N. C. Lieu, "The 'Romanitas' of the Xi'an Inscription", in From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Li Tang & Dietmar W. Winkler (Eds.), Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Wien. The most obvious Syriac church-hierarchical term in the context of the Syriac would have been papa (<Lat.) or in its Graecicized form pap(p)os which in this case does not mean 'Pope' but a 'metropolitan bishop'. Related terms en graecicization