Hellas

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛləs

Proper noun

Hellas

Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.
- 1999, Sean McMeekin, "The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships", Literary Review, March:
  Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.

Derived terms

Helladic

Related terms

Translations

Greek name for Greece

Armenian: Հելլադա (Hellada)
Esperanto: Helaso
Finnish: Hellas (fi)
French: Grèce (fr) f
German: Hellas (de) n (poetic), Griechenland (de) n
Greek: Ελλάδα (el) f (Elláda), Ελλάς (el) f (Ellás), Ελληνική Δημοκρατία f (Ellinikí Dimokratía)
Latin: Hellas f, Graecia (la) f

Norwegian:
Bokmål: Hellas (no) n

Nynorsk: Hellas (nn) n
Portuguese: Hélade (pt) f
Russian: Элла́да (ru) f (Elláda)
Rusyn: Ела́да f (Eláda)
Volapük: Grikän (vo)

Anagrams

as hell

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Hellas n

Greece

Related terms

See also

Greeklish

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Hellas n

Greece

Related terms

grekar
gresk
hellenar
hellensk

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