English
Hellas
Hellas comes from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς ‘Greece’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἙλλάςHellás‘Greece’
- Englishearliest quotation 1999Hellas
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἙλλάςHellás‘Greece’
- Englishearliest quotation 1999Hellas
Earliest quotation: 1999, Sean McMeekin, The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships: “Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it…”
Every English word from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς
Today it means
name Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς / Hellas