Hellenic

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἙλλάς“Greece”
2. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἙλληνικός“of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”
3. English todayHellenic

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós, “of or pertaining to Greece or Greeks”), from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). By surface analysis, Hellen + -ic. First attested in c. 1640.

Words from the same roots