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Hellas en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). Doublet of Ellada.

Meanings

1. Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.
   • Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas. 1999 March, Sean McMeekin, “The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships”, in Literary Review:

Relateds

Hellenist · Hellenical · Hellenism · Hellenistical · Hellenizer · Hellenistically · Hellenically · Hellenistic · Helleniser · Hellenization · Hellene · Helladic · Hellenisation · Hellenize · Hellenise · Hellenic · Hellen

Translations (32)

nb Grekenland (Greek name for Greece) · nb Hellas (Greek name for Greece) · hy Հելլադա (Greek name for Greece) · cmn 希臘 /希腊 (Greek name for Greece) · de Hellas (Greek name for Greece) · hak 希臘 /希腊 (Greek name for Greece) · da Hellas (Greek name for Greece) · nan-hbl 希臘 /希腊 (Greek name for Greece) · hi हेलस (Greek name for Greece) · cdo 希臘 /希腊 (Greek name for Greece) · eo Helaso (Greek name for Greece) · el Ελλάς (Greek name for Greece) · ro Elada (Greek name for Greece) · nn Grekenland (Greek name for Greece) · el Ελλάδα (Greek name for Greece) · nn Hellas (Greek name for Greece) · la Hellas (Greek name for Greece) · la Graecia (Greek name for Greece) · wuu 希臘 /希腊 (Greek name for Greece) · fr Hellade (Greek name for Greece) · frm Hellade (Greek name for Greece) · yue 希臘 /希腊 (Greek name for Greece) · rue Ела́да (Greek name for Greece) · de Griechenland (Greek name for Greece) · cs Helada (Greek name for Greece) · fi Hellas (Greek name for Greece) · da Grækenland (Greek name for Greece) · fr Grèce (Greek name for Greece) · it Grecia (Greek name for Greece) · vo Grikän (Greek name for Greece) · ru Элла́да (Greek name for Greece) · pt Hélade (Greek name for Greece)