English

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• Hellenization (North America)

Noun

Hellenisation ‎(plural Hellenisations)

1. (British) The adoption of Greek manners and culture
2. (British) The act of causing a culture to become Greek
3. (British) The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character,^[1] (cf. Latinize) such as by coining a word with Greek roots to express a concept that otherwise might be expressed in modern vernacular
   • Miranda Anderson^[2]

     Divination by mirrors was called catoptromancy, a name derived from the Greek word katroptron, which means "mirror", or "reflection"... (emphasis added)

   • Patrick Hanks^[3]

     Antes German: ... Humanistic Hellenization of Blume, literally "flower", with reference to the Greek vocabulary word Anthos, "flower".

References

1. ↑ Murray, J.A.H. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (2 vols). Publisher: Oxford University Press. 1971. ISBN: 978-0198611172
2. ↑ Miranda Anderson. The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural History of the Mirror pub: Scholars Press 2007 isbn=978-1-84718-193-0
3. ↑ Hanks, Patrick. Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press 2003 isbn=978-0-19-977169-1 p 44

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