Hellenisation

English Alternative forms en Hellenization North America Noun en British spelling The adoption of Greek manners and culture The act of causing a culture to become Greek The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character,Murray, J.A.H. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (2 vols). Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1971. 978-0198611172 (cf. Latinize) such as by coining a word with Greek roots to express a concept that otherwise might be expressed in modern vernacular en Miranda Anderson The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural History of the Mirror http://books.google.com/books?id=TBbrAAAAMAAJ Scholars Press 2007 32 978-1-84718-193-0 The practice of divination using mirrors was called Catoptromancy, a name derived from the Greek word katroptron, which means “mirror”, or “reflection”; [emphasis added] en w:Patrick Hanks Dictionary of American Family Names 2 New York, N.Y. w:Oxford University Press 2003 44 https://books.google.com/books?id=vG7MZ9J6dAgC&pg=PA44 2 978-0-19-977169-1 Antes (402) German:Humanistic Hellenization of Blume, literally ‘flower’, with reference to the Greek vocabulary word anthos ‘flower’. Synonyms en Greekification Translations adoption of Greek culture Arabic: ar تهلين Catalan: ca hel·lenització f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 希臘化 Xīlàhuà Finnish: fi hellenisaatio French: fr hellénisation f Hebrew: he התיוונות f hityavnút causing a culture to become Greek Catalan: ca hel·lenització f Finnish: fi hellenisaatio Hebrew: he ייוון m yivún Spanish: es helenización f References Further reading Hellenization Hellenization, hellenization, Hellenisation, hellenisation