Achaean

Achaeans (plural)
Achæan (alternative)
Achaian (alternative)
Achean (alternative)
Akhaian (alternative)

Borrowed from Latin achaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιός (Akhaiós), + -an.

(loosely, literary) In Homeric usage, a Greek person, especially of the Mycenaean era.


Thracian

/ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/

(uncountable) the extinct language formerly spoken in Thrace.


Corinthian

en-adj

Corinthian (comparative more Corinthian, superlative most Corinthian)

more Corinthian (comparative)
most Corinthian (superlative)

/kəˈɹɪnθiən/

From Corinth + -ian. The senses related to opulence or debauchery derive from the reputation of ancient Corinth.

The silver waters of the spring had long since disappeared, but there still were left a few of the Corinthian pillars, some stretched on the ground and overgrown with creeping-plants, while two or three yet remained erect, and showed how graceful the whole must have been.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 21:

The examples of the concave family in the Byzantine times are found principally either in large capitals founded on the Greek Corinthian, used chiefly for the nave pillars of churches, or in the small lateral shafts of the palaces.

1853, John Ruskin, “V, Byzantine Palaces”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XV, page 130:


Boeotian

Beotian (alternative)
Bœotian (alternative)

(historical) A dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Boeotia.

Böotisch

a dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Boeotia


Euboean

An inhabitant of Euboea in central Greece.


Magnesian

An inhabitant or a resident of Magnesia.


Epirot

From Ancient Greek ἠπειρώτης (ēpeirṓtēs), from ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland, inland country”).

he would cry out as Pyrrhus did, admiring the Roman docility and courage, if such were my Epirots, I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a Church or Kingdom happy.

An inhabitant or a resident of ancient or modern Epirus, in northwest Greece and southern Albania.


Macedonian

en-noun

Macedonian (countable and uncountable, plural Macedonians)

Macedonians (plural)
Makedonian (alternative)

From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.

Republic of North Macedonia
Republic of North Macedonia

(uncountable) A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.


Samothracian

en-adj

Samothracian (comparative more Samothracian, superlative most Samothracian)

more Samothracian (comparative)
most Samothracian (superlative)

/sæməʊˈθɹeɪʃən/

/sæməʊˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/

/sæmoʊˈθɹeɪʃən/

Borrowed from French Samothracien, from Latin Samothraciensis. Alternatively, it could be analyzed Samothrace + -ian.


Ancient Greek

Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature.

اللُّغَة الْيُونَانِيَّة الْقَدِيمَة

Wiktionary’s coverage of Ancient Greek terms


Ancient Greek

Ancient Greeks (plural)
ancient Greek (alternative)

Alternative letter-case form of ancient Greek (“a native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece”).


Ancient Greek

Alternative letter-case form of ancient Greek (“of or relating to Ancient Greece”).


Samian

Samian (comparative more Samian, superlative most Samian)

more Samian (comparative)
most Samian (superlative)

Fill high the cup with Samian wine.

1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):

Of or pertaining to the island of Samos.


Arcadian

Arcadian (comparative more Arcadian, superlative most Arcadian)

more Arcadian (comparative)
most Arcadian (superlative)


Arcadian

A native or inhabitant of Arcadia (in Greece)

A native or inhabitant of Arcadia (in the US) or its suburbs.


Lesbian

en-noun

Lesbian (countable and uncountable, plural Lesbians)

From Latin Lesbius (“Lesbian”) (for further etymology, see Ancient Greek Λέσβος (Lésbos)) + adjective suffix -an, from Latin adjective suffix -anus. The sense of “gay woman” is a reference to Sappho, a famous inhabitant of Lesbos and gay poet.

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Lesbos.

lesbolainen

native or inhabitant of the island of Lesbos

(linguistics, uncountable) The variety of Aeolic Greek spoken on Lesbos from about 800 to 300 b.c., best known from the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.


Lesbian

en-adj

Lesbian (comparative more Lesbian, superlative most Lesbian)

more Lesbian (comparative)
most Lesbian (superlative)

(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the Lesbian variety of Aeolic Greek.

Lesbian novels


Spartan

Spartan (comparative more Spartan, superlative most Spartan)

more Spartan (comparative)
most Spartan (superlative)

From Middle English Spartan, Spertan, from Latin Spartānus, from Sparta + -ānus, equivalent to Sparta + -an.

Of or relating to Sparta or its citizens.


Ionian

* (Hellenic, Ionia, architecture): Ionia + -n
* (moon of Jupiter): Io + -n- + -ian

A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece.


Hellene

From Ἕλληνες (Héllēnes, “Greeks”), most probably a derivation of Ἑλλοί (Helloí) or Σελλοί (Selloí), the Greek inhabitants of the area around the sanctuary of Dodona (Δωδώνη (Dōdṓnē)). In Greek mythology Ἕλλην (Héllēn), whom the Ἕλληνες (Héllēnes, “Greeks”) were named after, was the son of Δευκαλίων (Deukalíōn) and Πύρρα (Púrrha).


Athenian

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From Latin athēniēnsis; compare Middle English Athenyensis pl and Old English Athēniense pl. By surface analysis, Athens + -ian.

(Greek mythology) Of or related to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, technology, and skillful warfare.


Beotian

(uncommon) Alternative form of Boeotian.


Theban

Thebans (plural)
Thebæan (alternative obsolete)


Grecian

From Latin Graecia + -an. Compare Old French grecien and Middle English grecan, grecen, greken, grekin.

Græcian (alternative)
Graecian (alternative)

Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.

1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:

He was a young man with a scornful mouth and the bright blue eyes of a healthy baby set in a dark sensitive face. His hair was pitch black, damp and curly—the hair of a Grecian statue gone brunette.

1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 11:

(obsolete or poetic) Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).


Grecian

Grecians (plural)
Græcian (alternative)
Graecian (alternative)

A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.

(obsolete) A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.

I spoke of Mr. Harris, of Salisbury, as being a very learned man, and in particular an eminent Grecian.

1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:

[…] and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.

1847, Thomas De Quincey, “Protestantism”, in Theological Essays and Other Papers, volume 1:

(obsolete) One well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek.


Thessalonian

Derived from Thessalonica. Appears as "Tessalonyans" in Tyndale Bible of 1525, but as "Tessalonicensis" in the older Wycliffe translation.

Someone or something from, or pertaining to, Thessaloniki


Laconian

From Ancient Greek Λάκων (Lákōn, “Laconian”).

A subdialect of the Doric dialect of Ancient Greek, most notably spoken by the Spartans.


Rhodian

From, or pertaining to, the Greek island of Rhodes or its people.


Maniot

From Mani + -iot. In some forms directly from Greek Μανιάτης (Maniátis).

Maniat (alternative)
Maniate (alternative)
Maniote (alternative)


Anatolian

An extinct group of Indo-European languages once spoken in Anatolia, including Hittite and Luwian.


Thessalonican

Someone of or from Thessalonica (Thessaloniki)


Epirote

Borrowed from Latin Ēpīrōtēs, from Koine Greek Ἠπειρώτης (Ēpeirṓtēs).


Græcian

AChilles transformation: Palimed / Accuſd of Treaſon and condemnd to die: / After long battaile, honor Hector led / The boldest Argiue Champion to defie: / The Græcians ſtorme to be ſo chalenged, / Hector and Aiax the fierce Combat try: / A Truce, a Banquet: at this pompous feaſt, / Queene Hellen is inuited a chiefe gueſt.

1609, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Canto. 12.”, in Troia Britanica: Or, Great Britaines Troy. […], London: […] W[illiam] Iaggard, →OCLC, argumentum, page 303:


Corfiot

Corfiots (plural)
Corfiote (alternative)

From Corfu + -iot (after Greek Κυπριώτης (Kypriótis, “Cypriot”)).

His name was Spiridon, he was a charismatic Corfiote, and his exuberance was inexhaustible.

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 406:


Nemean

Nemean (comparative more Nemean, superlative most Nemean)

more Nemean (comparative)
most Nemean (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Nemea, ancient site in the Peloponnese in Greece, associated with certain myths.


Bœotian

Bœotian (comparative more Bœotian, superlative most Bœotian)

more Bœotian (comparative)
most Bœotian (superlative)

On the ſixty‐ſecond day after the unfortunate action of Tanagra, he met the Bœotian army, much more numerous than his own, at Œnophyta, and gained a complete victory.

1795, William Mitford, The History of Greece, third edition, chapter XII, § III, page 410-411:


Zantiot

An inhabitant of the Greek island of Zakynthos.


Eubœan

But Themistoklês doubtless was only tempted to do, and enabled to do, by means of the Eubœan money, that which he would have wished, and had probably tried, to accomplish, without the money—to bring on a naval engagement at Artemisium.

1849, George Grote, chapter XL, in History of Greece, volume V, John Murray, page 131:


Lesviot

Constructed from gray Lesviot marble, the aqueduct stretched 26 km (16 miles) from Olympos mountain at Tsingos to Mytilini.

2018, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Essential Greek Islands, Fodor's Travel:

(rare) Relating to the island of Lesvos (Lesbos) in Greece.


Lesviot

Unlike most of the country, Lesviots know that they're Europeans, and they feel that they share with the continent a rich cultural legacy.

1992, Kyle McCarthy, John Levy, Greece '93-'94 on $45 a Day (Frommer's Budget Travel Guide), New York: Prentice Hall Travel, →ISBN, page 549:

Three Lesviots (1 male, 2 females) sue organized lesbians in Greece with the aim to interdict the use of the word "lesbians" for homosexual females. The use of this word for an aberration, they argue, makes Lesviots a target of ridicule when they tell where they come from.

2008 April 29, Wolfgang, “BS: Lesviots against Lesbians”, in Mudcat Café, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:

Lesbos is called Lesvos in Greek and the inhabitants call themselves Lesviots.

[2008 May 7, The Highlander, “Scotch vs. Scottish”, in soc.culture.scottish (Usenet):

Stand anywhere on the east coast of the Greek island of Lesvos and Turkey looms across the Aegean. The Lesviots did not stand a chance when Sultan Mohamed II sent over the mighty Ottoman army in 1462.

2010 March 6, “The good oil”, in traveller.com.au, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:

Not only will scholars find much of value in this seminal tome, but Vatoussans and other Lesviots will benefit from the invaluable genealogical data, especially the lengthy index of individuals in the appendix.

2014 September 4, “Book release for The Archives of Vatoussa: 1733-1912 written by Christos Stavrakoglou”, in Hellenic Communication Service, archived from the original on 2015-10-20:

From Perivolis, we continued west to the small harbour of Sigri, where we had lunch in a taverna named 'Australia' because members of the owner's family, like many Lesviots, had emigrated there.

2014 November 14, Chris Murphy, Reg Thorpe, “Lesbos in Autumn: Naturetrek Tour Report”, in naturetrek.co.uk, Cheriton: Naturetrek, page 2:

(rare) An inhabitant or a resident of Lesvos (Lesbos).

lesbano

an inhabitant or a resident Lesvos (Lesbos)


Peloponnesian

From Latin Peloponnesius, from Peloponnesus, from Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos, literally “the island of Pelops”).

uder

Πελοπόννησος

A native or inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.


Samiot

Samiots (plural)
Samiote (alternative archaic)


Cretian

en-adj

Cretian (comparative more Cretian, superlative most Cretian)

more Cretian (comparative)
most Cretian (superlative)


Lernean

(Greek mythology, archaeology) From or pertaining to Lerna, a former coastal lake and Helladic site on the Peloponnese.


Naxiot

One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Naxos.


Lemniot

One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lemnos.


Patmiot

“One of the reasons I bought the house was that it had more cisterns than any other building in town. I dug another two for good measure.” As every Patmiot knows, the island's main problem is its shortage of water. On Patmos, cisterns represent real wealth.

Architectural Digest v.57, p.274, Condé Nast (2000)

An inhabitant of the Greek island of Patmos.


Zakynthiot

Zakynthiots (plural)
Zakinthiot (alternative)


Skyriot

Many years later, say the Skyriots, the British fleet with [Rupert] Brooke on board, was steaming north to free Constantinople from the Turks. The poet was dangerously ill, and when his ship came abreast of Skyros – strange destiny! – he died. His friends who were with him remembered his wish, and buried him with honour in the place he had loved and chosen so many years before.

1965, Michael Carroll, “Skyros: A Poet’s Grave”, in Gates of the Wind: On the Northern Sporades, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished as An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos, London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris & Co., 2009, →ISBN, page 69:

He launched into a long rigmarole of which I understood no word: the Skyriots speak a language all their own, and are unintelligible even to the Psariots, who inhabit the next island. But his tone, and the uninhibited delight of his expression, were eloquence enough.

1965, “Strangers on Skyros”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume 297, London: William Blackwood, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 312:

One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Skyros.


Miliot

One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Milos.


Psarian

One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Psara.


Moreot

(historical) One of the inhabitants of Morea.


Kalymniot

One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Kalymnos.


Aivaliot

en-noun

Aivaliot (countable and uncountable, plural Aivaliots)


Icarian

en-adj

Icarian (comparative more Icarian, superlative most Icarian)

more Icarian (comparative)
most Icarian (superlative)


Graecian

Obsolete spelling of Grecian, alternative form of Græcian.


Stymphalian

Stymphalian (comparative more Stymphalian, superlative most Stymphalian)

more Stymphalian (comparative)
most Stymphalian (superlative)


Stymfalian

Stymfalian (comparative more Stymfalian, superlative most Stymfalian)

more Stymfalian (comparative)
most Stymfalian (superlative)


Candian

There is a good road, and it is possible to walk if desired, although it is about as hot and uninteresting a walk as can well be imagined. It is easier and better to ride, although the Cretan drivers in general, and the Candian ones in particular, enjoy the reputation of being about the most rapacious in the civilized world.

1907, Philip Sanford Marden, chapter 2, in Greece and the Ægean Islands, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 29:

(historical) Of or relating to the Cretan city of Heraklion or its inhabitants.


Coan

en-proper noun

Coan (countable and uncountable, plural Coans)

unincorporated community
unincorporated community

Northumberland County
Northumberland County#English

An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia, United States.


Edessene

From Latin Edessēnus, from Ancient Greek Ἐδεσσηνός (Edessēnós). By surface analysis, Edessa + -ene.


Hydriot

en-adj

Hydriot (comparative more Hydriot, superlative most Hydriot)

more Hydriot (comparative)
most Hydriot (superlative)

Matters came to a head when the Hydriot Admiral Miaoulis defied the government.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 108:

From or pertaining to the Greek island of Hydra.


Thasian

Thasian (comparative more Thasian, superlative most Thasian)

more Thasian (comparative)
most Thasian (superlative)


Piraic

Piraic (comparative more Piraic, superlative most Piraic)

more Piraic (comparative)
most Piraic (superlative)

Of or relating to Piraeus or its citizens.


Sinopean

A colony of Sinopeans.


Corinthiad

cy-noun

Corinthiad m or f by sense (plural Corinthiaid)

Corinthiaid (plural)
Corinthiad
Gorinthiad (soft)
Nghorinthiad
Chorinthiad

Corinthiaid

the Biblical Epistles to the Corinthians


Thesaloniad

Thesaloniad m or f by sense (plural Thesaloniaid, not mutable)

Thessalonian, inhabitant of Thessalonica

Thesaloniaid

the Biblical Epistles to the Thessalonians