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Alternative forms

• Grecicize, graecicize, grecicize

Verb

Graecicize ‎(third-person singular simple present Graecicizes, present participle Graecicizing, simple past and past participle Graecicized)

1. (transitive, rare) Synonym of Grecize (to translate into Greek or render in a Greek form).
   • 1989, Chaim Rabin, "Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew", in Language Adaptation, Florian Coulmas (ed.), 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'.

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• graecicization

English

Verb

graecicize ‎(third-person singular simple present graecicizes, present participle graecicizing, simple past and past participle graecicized)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize
   • 1883, F. Warrington Eastlake, "Equine Deities", in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XI, R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama.

     For not only was Yauk a sun-god of the Sabaeans, but Set, under the title of Tebha, graecicized Typhon, was a personification of the destructive energy of the great orb.

   • 1935, The Geographical Magazine, Michael Huxley (ed.), vol. I.

     ...Philipp Melanchthon, who, in honour of classical learning graecicized his German name of Schwarzerd.

   • 1984, Antoine Berman, The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany (L'Épreuve de l'étranger), State University of New York Press, Albany (S. Heyvaert, trans., 1992).

     If Hölderlin had merely "dialectized" or "graecicized" his poetic language, its balancing double dimension and its differentiating power would disappear...

   • 1989, Chaim Rabin, "Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew", in Language Adaptation, Florian Coulmas (ed.), Cambridge University Press.

     "Arimanios" seems to be a graecicized form of "Ahriman," the evil cosmic principle in Zoroastrian teaching.