Graecity

alternative Græcity · alternative Grecity

1. obsoleteuncountableAdoption of Greek naming and/or the Greek language.

   The territory and towns of Judæa…from the period of the Maccabees dated the era of their Græcity (suam receperunt Græcitatem).

   1845, O.T. Dobbin (tr.), D. Diodati (aut.), “Dominici Diodati I. C. Neapolitani, De Christo Græce Loquente Exercitatio” in The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Third Series: № I (Whole Number: LVII), art. vii, § 8, 175

   Synonyms: Hellenization

2. uncountableGreek (especially linguistically Greek) character or style.

   The k in skope is in effect a marker of graecity, and as such conserves the original Greek seme of sight.

   1998, R. Kuin, Chamber Music, e.n. 24 to ch. 2, 247

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   [Hebrew] now possesses a series of prefixes to translate such elements as mono-, di-, tri-, sur-, sub-, inter-, etc., partly even simulating the Latinity or Graecity of the European morphemes by using Aramaic elements.

   1969, Journal of Tamil Studies, I, № 1, 57

   The overall climate of the Old Babylonian scribe school was as repressive as that seventeenth to nineteenth century Latin school which inculcated “Latinity” or “Graecity” into the sore backs of future priests and officials.

   1995, J. Høyrup, As Regards the Humanities…, page 11

   A revised understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey…raises two…inescapable questions, namely: first, how did these works come into the Hellenic World? and, second, how did these works…become the very quintessence of Graecity?

   2006, R.S. Price, chapter X, in Homeric Whispers, page 235

3. collectiveuncountableGreek texts and other language materials, regarded as a corpus.

   When it will be finished, the DGE will be the largest and most reliable dictionary of antique graecity.

   ibidem, 630/2

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   Special areas of the Greek lexicon were worked on by specialists; the graecity treated was exactly described: the complete lexicon of Greek, including inscriptions and papyri until and including the sixth century AD, was to be recorded.

   2013, J. Kramer, “The ancient languages of Greek and Latin”, in Dictionaries: An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography • Supplementary Volume, pt VII, ch. xxxviii, § 4.4.2, 629/2