grecicize

present singular third person grecicizes · participle present grecicizing · participle past grecicized · past grecicized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Graecicize.

   They comprised a number of Greeks from Istanbul, and a number of grecicized Romanians.

   2014, Andreas Kappeler, The Russian Empire: a Multi-Ethnic History

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   1894, H.E. Wassa Pasha and P. Colquhoun, "The Pelasgi and their Modern Albanian Descendants", in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, New Series, Vol. VII, No. 13, The Oriental University Institute, Woking. Interesting too is the contention, that after the Pelasgi had occupied Asia Minor and the islands in the Aegean Sea, they conquered Greece, became gradually grecicized, and then, from Greece, re-conquered their original settlements, which in the meanwhile had themselves become grecicized.

   1951, Karl Heinrich Menges, "The Oriental Elements in the Vocabulary of the Oldest Russian Epochs", in Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York (Supplement). From Byzantine sources, the word is rather late as τζελεπἡς (usually grecicized and declined, explained as ἑξ εὐγενῶν καταγὁμενος), in the main found with Georgios Frantzes (Γεὠργιος Φραντζἠς, 1401–1478[?]) treating the history of 1258–1477...

   Of course, Byzantines who were engaged in legal parlance would have encountered the grecicized "ἀκτοριτάτε" (occasionally used in legal texts) and its later trajectory in Romance vernacular.

   2014, Stratis Papaioannou, “Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author”, in Aglae Pizzone, editor, The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature

present singular third person Grecicizes · participle present Grecicizing · participle past Grecicized · past Grecicized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Graecicize.

   All efforts to Slavize, Grecicize, or Ottomanize him have failed.

   1917, M. Edith Durham, “Albania Past and Present”, in The Journal of the Central Asian Society, volume IV

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   His Schauspielhaus (the Royal Theatre, not the Opera-House) is an excellent example of what can be done with Greek, or more truly by Grecicizing, forms kept free from all Roman intermixture.

   1885 July 18, M.G. van Rensselaer, “Berlin and New York”, in The American Architect and Building News

   The early names ΄Ασκαλιγγιον Ptol., Caspingium Tab. Peut. (cf. Förstemann, Die deutschen Ortsnamen, p. 198) may be partly Grecicized or Latinized.

   1923, Eilert Ekwall, English Place-Names in -ing, Lund