Greekizev.
/ˈɡriːkʌɪz/ rare.
transitive. = Graecize v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [verb (transitive)]
Grecanize1611
Graecize1702
Hellenize1728
Greekize1800
Hellenicize1852
Grecianize1884
1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 9 564 Miss was a pedant in as short a time as ever pedant yet took to become Greekised.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 207 Du Bartas, and others, imbued with Attic literature, greekised the French idiom.
Derivatives
ˈGreekism n. = Graecism n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > word or idiom of
Graecism1570
Hellenism1609
Ionism1676
Doricism1698
Dorism1698
Ionicism1699
Aeolism1712
Greekism1803
Alexandrianism1822
Cilicism1848
1803 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 452–3 You have ruined your style by Germanisms, Latinisms and Greekisms.
ˈGreekist n. a student of Greek.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > one versed in Greek
Grecian1557
Hellenist1647
Greekist1796
philhellene1826
1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 182 But I forgot that you are not a Greekist.
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