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hellenophone

hellenophone is the alternative letter-case form of Hellenophone.

Adjective capitalized: Hellenophone

Hellenophone (not comparable)

  1. Greek-speaking
    • No need to emphasize the fact that the Hellenophone people – metallarii as well as the other inhabitants of mining territories – were both numerous and prominent.2004, Slobodan Dušanić, “Roman mining in Illyricum: historical aspects”, in Gianpaolo Urso, editor, Dall’Adriatico al Danubio: l’Illirico nell’età greca e romana: atti del convegno internazionale...
    • First, the earliest Christians in Africa of whom we have evidence are Punic, and not part of the cultured elite who might have contact with Hellenophone culture.2014, Alistair C. Stewart, “The Causes of Monepiscopacy”, in The Original Bishops: Office and Order in the First Christian Communities, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 314

Noun capitalized: Hellenophone

Hellenophone (plural Hellenophones)

  1. A person who speaks Greek
    • The Orthodox, separated from Rome, are divided into two factions which differ in language and origin, and live in enmity: on one side, the Hellenophones, many of whom are natives of the Greek kingdom; on the other, the Arabophones, subject to the khedive or natives of Syria; all these have a...1907, Jules Pargoire, “Alexandria”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John J[oseph] Wynne, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An...
    • A third group of Hellenophones were those Dawkins studied in the twenty Cappadocian villages located about the regions of Nigde and Kayseri.1971, Speros Vryonis, Jr., “The Byzantine Residue in Turkish Anatolia”, in The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth...

Forms of hellenophone

Noun
pluralhellenophones
pluralHellenophones
Adjective
alternative formhellenophone

Origin of hellenophone

From Helleno- + -phone.

Questions about hellenophone

What does hellenophone mean?
Hellenophone means greek-speaking.
What is hellenophone the alternative letter-case form of?
Hellenophone is the alternative letter-case form of Hellenophone.
What part of speech is hellenophone?
Hellenophone can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hellenophone in the dictionary

  1. Hellenophilia
  2. hellenophobe
  3. hellenophobes
  4. hellenophobia
  5. hellenophobic
  6. hellenophone
  7. hellenophones
  8. Hellens
  9. heller
  10. Heller myotomies
  11. Heller myotomy

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