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单词 hellene
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Hellenen.

Brit. /ˈhɛliːn/, U.S. /ˈhɛˌlin/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s Ellene, 1500s– Hellene, 1600s–1700s Hellen.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek Ἕλλην.
Etymology: < ancient Greek Ἕλλην a Greek. Compare classical Latin Hellēnae, Hellēnes, both plural (Pliny).The name is of unknown origin; the suffix is also found in other names of peoples of northern Greece, such as Ἀκαρνᾶνες, Δυμᾶνες, etc. The plural (Ἕλληνες) occurs first in Homer, as the name of a Thessalian tribe of which Hellen was chief; in the historical period it was the name applied to themselves by all Greeks.
A Greek person: (a) an ancient Greek (see also note at etymology and quot. 1662); cf. Mix-Hellene n.; (b) a native or inhabitant of modern Greece; (also) a person of Greek descent or origin living elsewhere. Usually in plural.
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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [noun] > person
Hellene1482
Pelasgianc1487
Ionian1542
Minyan1566
Minyae1567
Thracian1569
Ionic1577
Hellenian1598
Lapith1607
Minoan1902
Keftian1903
Thraco-Phrygian1946
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Greece
Greekc893
Gregois13..
Griffon13..
Grewa1375
Hellene1482
Grecana1500
Argive?1532
Greciana1549
Hellenist1606
Greeklinga1637
Graecaster1716
Helladian1773
bubble and squeak1938
bubble1962
1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion i. xxii. f. xxv Of this Ellena the grekes were called ellenes.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Hellenes, the sonne of Deucalion, of whom the Grekes were named Hellenes.
1596 E. Topsell Reward of Relig. Ep. Ded. sig. *6v The Grecians, who are called in their owne tongue Hellenes.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §12 Although the name of Hellens at last spread its self over all the people of Greece, yet it was at first peculiar to that part of Thessaly called Pthiotis.
1679 P. Rycaut Present State Greek Church i. 9 We are not to treat of it as of a single Province, as of Hellas, or as confined to Attica alone..but we are here to consider them both as Hellenes, properly of the Greek Nation.
1740 tr. A. Banier Mythol. & Fables Ancients IV. viii. v. 431 Alexander the Great himself was obliged to prove his being one of the Hellenes, before he was received to enter the Lists in those Games.
1788 J. Robertson Parian Chron. 24 They were named Hellenes, who before were called Graikoi.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 379 A general congress of the Hellenes.
1896 Whitaker's Almanack 550/2 George, second son of the present King of Denmark..elected King of the Hellenes..1863.
1913 M. E. Durham in Albania & Albanians (2001) 33 Certain journals have announced that the Hellenes of Koritza would oppose by force their separation from Greece.
1959 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 325 151/1 He likes to think of the Athenians as missing their great opportunity to unite the Hellenes when they decided to use the tribute to solve unemployment and to build the Parthenon.
2002 K. H. Karpat Stud. Ottoman Social & Polit. Hist. iii. 774 A Bulgarian in Greece is not considered a ‘Greek’ if he/she does not speak the Greek language and think of himself/herself as a Hellene even though Bulgaria and Greece share an identical faith.

Derivatives

ˈHellenedom n. the realm or world of the Hellenes.
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1880 J. P. Mahaffy Hist. Classical Greek Lit. II. viii. 226 Thucydides..goes over similar ground, in describing the national merits of Athens as a centre of culture for all Hellenedom.
1928 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 48 238 There are parallels in various corners of Hellenedom.
1949 M. Cary Geographic Background Greek & Rom. Hist (1950) vi. 153 From the time of Alexander to the coming of the Turks Asia Minor was an integral part of Hellenedom.
Hellenish adj. Obsolete = Hellenistic adj.
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1660 J. Taylor Let. 10 Feb. in J. Evelyn Diary & Corr. (1852) (modernized text) III. 128 The word is used by the Hellenish Jews to signify any place of spiritual and immaterial pleasure.
1690 tr. J. Le Clerc Five Lett. ii. 91 It is very absurd in some Learned Men to imagine there was an Hellenish Tongue.
1870 J. Millikin in Amer. Presbyterian Rev. Jan. 142 The Gospel is first Hebrew, then Hellenish, then Samaritan, lastly Gentile and cosmopolitan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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