Hellenise

See also: hellénisé and hellénise

English

Verb

Hellenise (third-person singular simple present Hellenises, present participle Hellenising, simple past and past participle Hellenised)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Hellenize.
    • 2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel‎[1], archived from the original on 24 September 2023:
      The ancient Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the forebears of the Lycians, the Trm̃mili, "sprang originally from Crete", though modern-day scholars believe they were an Anatolian people who became Hellenised after Alexander the Great seized the region from the Persians in 333 BCE.

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