Citations:Graecicize

To translate a word or name into the Greek language, or render it in a Greek form.

 * graecicize
 * 1883, F. Warrington Eastlake, "Equine Deities", in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XI, R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama.
 * For not only was Yauk a sun-god of the Sabaeans, but Set, under the title of Tebha, graecicized Typhon, was a personification of the destructive energy of the great orb.
 * 1935, The Geographical Magazine, Michael Huxley (ed.), vol. I.
 * ...Philipp Melanchthon, who, in honour of classical learning graecicized his German name of Schwarzerd.
 * 2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec; Éditions Peeters, Louvain – Paris.
 * "Arimanios" seems to be a graecicized form of "Ahriman," the evil cosmic principle in Zoroastrian teaching.


 * Graecicize
 * 1989, Chaim Rabin, "Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew", in Language Adaptation, Florian Coulmas (ed.), Cambridge University Press.
 * In this period it enlarged its vocabulary to deal with new tools, institutions and ideas introduced by Hellenistic Greek and Latin, the latter through the medium of Graecicized Latin words, and words created in Greek for Roman institutions and concepts.
 * 2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec; Éditions Peeters, Louvain – Paris.
 * The largely non-Semitic and non-Christian, Graecicizing form of the names of the beings named are not part of the standard repertoire of names invoked in the traditional baptismal context, which suggests that they originated elsewhere.
 * 2013, Samuel N. C. Lieu, "The 'Romanitas' of the Xi'an Inscription", in From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Li Tang & Dietmar W. Winkler (Eds.), Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Wien.
 * The most obvious Syriac church-hierarchical term in the context of the Syriac would have been papa (<Lat.) or in its Graecicized form pap(p)os which in this case does not mean 'Pope' but a 'metropolitan bishop'.

To apply the qualities of Greek to another language.

 * graecicize
 * 1984, Antoine Berman, The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany (L'Épreuve de l'étranger), State University of New York Press, Albany (S. Heyvaert, trans., 1992).
 * If Hölderlin had merely "dialectized" or "graecicized" his poetic language, its balancing double dimension and its differentiating power would disappear...

To assimilate or acquire characteristics of Greek culture, language, or tradition.

 * Graecicize
 * 1) * 1891, H.E. Wassa Pasha and P. Colquhoun, "The Ancient Pelasgi and their Descendants", in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, Second Series, Vol. I, No. 2, The Oriental University Institute, Woking.
 * The third emigration from the Peloponnese took place at a comparatively recent period, or about B.C. 443, when the thoroughly Graecicized Pelasgians settled in Thurium, under Lampon, an expedition to which Herodotus and other eminent men attached themselves.
 * 1) * 1908, Gerhart Hauptmann, Griechischer Frühling, quoted in Theodore Ziolkowski, Classicism of the Twenties: Art, Music & Literature, University of Chicago Press (2015).
 * When the dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, who had not benefited from a classical education, experienced in 1907 his "Greek Spring" (Griechischer Frühling, 1908), he almost aggressively resisted anything that might smack of the "weakly Graecicizing, the bloodless love for a bloodless Greece," that he attributed to the scholars he sometimes encountered there.


 * Grecicize
 * 1) * 1885, M.G. van Rensselaer, "Berlin and New York", in The American Architect and Building News, 18 July 1885.
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1917, M. Edith Durham, "Albania Past and Present", in The Journal of the Central Asian Society, vol. IV.
 * All efforts to Slavize, Grecicize, or Ottomanize him have failed.
 * 1) * 2014, Andreas Kappeler, The Russian Empire: a Multi-Ethnic History.
 * They comprised a number of Greeks from Istanbul, and a number of grecicized Romanians.