Greekify

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English

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Etymology

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From Greek +‎ -ify.

Verb

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Greekify (third-person singular simple present Greekifies, present participle Greekifying, simple past and past participle Greekified)

  1. to make Greek.
    • 2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 101:
      Although he was an opponent of the populares, no one did more than Cicero to Latinize Greek rhetoric and Greekify Roman oratory.
    • 2015, Judy Petsonk, Queen of the Jews: Salome Alexandra, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 281:
      Led by his son Judah the Hammer (Judah Maccabee), the rebels fought a guerrilla war, not only against the Syrian army of occupation, but also against the Jewish priests and nobles who were trying to Greekify the Jewish religion.
    • 2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:
      The guards in the king's retinue had tried to Greekify their helmets by sewing on pieces of boar tusk, though the tusky chunks flapped around like hangnails.

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