Greekify
English
Etymology
Greek + -ify
Verb
Greekify (third-person singular simple present Greekifies, present participle Greekifying, simple past and past participle Greekified)
- to make Greek.
- 2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739164518), 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 9781498232371), 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 9780253036384)
- 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.
- 2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739164518), page 101: