Ancient Greek

Proper noun

 * 1) Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature.

Usage notes

 * The period is roughly understood as spanning from the end of Mycenaean Greek during the 12th-century to the advent of Byzantine Greek following the fall of Rome in the 5th century . However, the term often excludes archaic forms (such as Homeric Greek) and late forms of the popular language (the "Koine", "Hellenistic", or "Biblical" Greek commonly spoken from the Hellenistic period onward and whose late forms are often indistinguishable from Byzantine Greek). Further, Ancient Greek continued to be used as a literary language throughout the Byzantine period and (to a lesser extent) into the present day.
 * The term is also sometimes—as in ISO 639—used more generally for any premodern form of Greek, with a common cutoff date of 1453 (the Fall of Constantinople).

Translations

 * Arabic: اللُّغَة الْيُونَانِيَّة الْقَدِيمَة,, اللُّغَة الإِغْرِيقِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: старажытнагрэ́цкая мо́ва, старажытнагрэ́чаская мо́ва
 * Bengali: কদীম ইউনানী ভাষা
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: старогръ́цки
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 古代希臘語
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malnovgreka, antikva greka lingvo, malnovgreka lingvo
 * Faroese: forngrikskt
 * Finnish:
 * French:, grec antique
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ძველი ბერძნული ენა, ძველბერძნული ენა, ძველი ბერძნული, ძველბერძნული
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: lingua grec ancian, greco ancian
 * Irish: Sean-Ghréigis
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 古代ギリシャ語
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: graece antique
 * Latvian: sengrieķu valoda
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: старогр́чки
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan: grèc antic, grèc ancian
 * Polish: starożytna greka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: greaca antică, greaca veche
 * Russian: древнегре́ческий язы́к,
 * Scots: Auncient Greek
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, gammalgrekiska, antik grekiska
 * Turkish: Antik Yunanca, ,
 * Ukrainian: давньогре́цька мо́ва
 * Vietnamese: tiếng Hy Lạp cổ đại
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: Aldgryksk, Ald-Gryksk
 * Yakut: былыргы гириэк тыла

Noun

 * 1) A native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece.

Usage notes

 * Usually, ancient is not capitalized in this sense.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to Ancient Greece.