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单词 hellenian
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Helleniann.adj.

Brit. /hᵻˈliːnɪən/, /hɛˈliːnɪən/, U.S. /hɛˈliniən/
Forms: 1600s Helenian, 1600s Helienian, 1700s Hellenean, 1700s– Hellenian.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek Ἑλλήνιος , -an suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek Ἑλλήνιος Hellenic, Greek ( < Ἕλλην Hellene n. + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. Compare earlier Hellene n. With use as adjective compare earlier Hellenic adj.With the form Hellenean compare -ean suffix.
A. n.
A Greek, esp. an ancient Greek; a Hellene.
ΘΚΠ
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
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 69 In Hellade where live the lovely dames, The Myrmidons, Helenians, and Achives, rob'd of fames [Gk. Μυρμιδόνες δὲ καλεῦντο καὶ Ἕλληνες καὶ Ἀχαιοί].
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 834 Th' Achaians, Myrmidons, Helleneans bear.
1732 A. M. Ramsay Ess. Civil Govt. vii. 50 The Hellenians, from Hellen, the Son of Deucalion.
1794 W. Drummond Rev. Govt. Sparta & Athens i. i. 13 Barbarous hordes of Hellenians and Pelasgians.
a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) iii. xvi. 308 Two complete subjects of combat,—viz. between the Centaurs and Lapithæ, and between the Amazons and Hellenians.
1864 Anthropol. Rev. 2 275 The question is of the characters by which the Arab, the Hellenian, the Celt, and the Saxon are contrasted.
1903 T. S. Spivey Lavius Egyptus 67 In the romantic minds of the most polished of all people, the Hellenians, I am named ‘the goddess of time and the fates’.
1941 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 25 Apr. 1/7 (headline) Germans subdue Hellenians on isle near Dardenelles.
1983 C. C. Henriksen tr. H. Pedersen Glance at Hist. Linguistics 20 Peoples from this language family of Asia Minor were said to have inhabited Greece prior to the Hellenians.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Greece, esp. ancient Greece; Hellenic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective]
Grecana1400
Greekc1400
Gregion1513
Greekisha1568
Grecian1577
Grecanic1601
pan-Ionian1613
Hellenic1644
Grecanical1678
Hellenian1740
Helladian1773
Helladic1779
Greek-like1847
Panhellenic1849
pan-Ionic1855
Graecized1860
Greekesquea1878
1740 H. Travers tr. Homer Iliad ii, in Misc. Poems & Transl. 282 Th' Achaian, Myrmidon, Hellenian Names [Gk. Μυρμιδόνες δὲ καλεῦντο καὶ Ἕλληνες καὶ Ἀχαιοί].
1794 W. Drummond Rev. Govt. Sparta & Athens i. i. 14 The Phenicians traded..with the Hellenian hordes.
1830 J. W. Warter tr. Aristophanes Knights in Acharnians, Knights, Wasps 100 Hellenian Jove [Gk. Ἑλλάνιε Ζεῦ], thine is the prize of victory!
1866 Anthropol. Rev. 4 195 Eastern faith, after its first Hellenian baptism.
1908 J. Payne Death of Pan in Carol & Cadence 141 In waves of wailing music, soft, sonorous, The high Hellenian Gods their death-song sang.
1941 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 23 Apr. 1/8 (headline) Hellenian government flees to Crete as fall of Athens looms.
1996 Organization Sci. 7 460/1 His argument is that..Hellenian culture, ‘was to individual city-states as a contemporary corporation is to its separate departments’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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