Ancient Greek

Noun

Ἕλλην • ‎(Héllēn) m ‎(genitive Ἕλληνος); third declension

1. Greek, one who is from Greece or speaks 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.

2. one who participates in Greek culture.
3. often used in Jewish and Christian literature as referring to any non-Jew: gentile
4. pagan

Proper noun

Ἕλλην • ‎(Héllēn) m ‎(genitive Ἕλληνος); third declension

1. Hellen, the mythical patriarch of the Greeks.

Declension

Derived terms

• Ἑλληνάρχης ‎(****ēnárkhēs)
• Ἑλληνίζω ‎(****ēnízō)
• Ἑλληνικός ‎(****ēnikós)
• Ἑλλάνιος ‎(****ánios)
• Ἑλλανίς ‎(Hellanís)
• Ἑλλανισμός ‎(Hellanismós)
• Ἑλλανιστί ‎(Hellanistí)
• Ἑλληνογαλάται ‎(****ēnogalátai)
• Ἑλληνοδίκαι ‎(****ēnodíkai)
• Ἑλληνίς ‎(****ēnís)

Related terms

• Ἑλλάς ‎(****ás)

Descendants

• English: Hellen (proper noun); Hellene (noun)
• Greek:
  • Έλλην ‎(Éllin)
  • Έλληνας ‎(Éllinas)
  • plural: Έλληνες ‎(Éllines)
• Latin: Hellen (plural Hellenes)

References

• Ἕλλην in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ἕλλην in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «Ἕλλην» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1672”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,011, 1,012
• NA27

1. ↑ Robert S. P. Beekes, Greek etymological dictionary

Greek

Alternative forms

• Έλλην ‎(Éllin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἕλλην ‎(Héllēn)

Noun

Ἕλλην • ‎(Ἕllin) m ‎(plural Ἕλληνες)

1. Katharevousa form of Έλληνας ‎(Éllinas, “Greek man”)