Graecity

Noun

Graecity (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Adoption 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...

   Synonyms:

   Hellenization

2. Greek (especially linguistically Greek) character or style.
   • [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
3. (collective) Greek texts and other language materials, regarded as a corpus.
   • 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
   • When it will be finished, the DGE will be the largest and most reliable dictionary of antique graecity.ibidem, 630/2