Ancient Greek

Verb

Ἑλληνίζω • ‎(****ēnízō)

1. I speak or write Greek (especially correct Greek)
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 82.b

     Σωκράτης   Ἕλλην μέν ἐστι καὶ ἑλληνίζει;
     Μένων   πάνυ γε σφόδρα, οἰκογενής γε.

     Socrates: Is [the slave boy] a Greek and speaks Greek?
     Meno: Very much so, in fact home-bred.

   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 172
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1407a19
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Letter to Pompey 2.5
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   • 160 CE – 210 CE, Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians 1.186
   1. I am Greek
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 182a34
   2. I speak common Greek (as opposed to the Attic dialect)
      • 316 BCE – 250 BCE, Posidippus Comicus, Harmost 28

        σὺ μὲν ἀττικίζεις ... οἱ δ᾽ Ἕλληνες ἑλληνίζομεν

        You speak Attic, but the Greeks speak Greek.

2. I make Greek, Hellenize
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.6.1
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 11.103

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ἀφελληνίζω ‎(Aphellēnízō)
• Ἐξελληνίζω ‎(Exellēnízō)

Related terms

• Ἀνελλήνιστος ‎(Anellḗnistos)
• Ἑλληνισμός ‎(****ēnismós)
• Ἑλληνιστής ‎(****ēnistḗs)
• Ἑλληνιστί ‎(****ēnistí)

References

• Ἑλληνίζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἑλληνίζω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Ἑλληνίζω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)