"Greekify" meaning in English

See Greekify in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: Greekifies [present, singular, third-person], Greekifying [participle, present], Greekified [participle, past], Greekified [past]
Etymology: Greek + -ify Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Greek|ify}} Greek + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} Greekify (third-person singular simple present Greekifies, present participle Greekifying, simple past and past participle Greekified)
  1. to make Greek. Synonyms: Hellenize
    Sense id: en-Greekify-en-verb-yAHK1kel Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ify

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Greekify meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Greek",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "Greek + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Greek + -ify",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Greekifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Greekifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Greekified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Greekified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Greekify (third-person singular simple present Greekifies, present participle Greekifying, simple past and past participle Greekified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ify",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books, page 101",
          "text": "Although he was an opponent of the populares, no one did more than Cicero to Latinize Greek rhetoric and Greekify Roman oratory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Judy Petsonk, Queen of the Jews: Salome Alexandra, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 281",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make Greek."
      ],
      "id": "en-Greekify-en-verb-yAHK1kel",
      "links": [
        [
          "Greek",
          "Greek"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Hellenize"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Greekify"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Greek",
        "3": "ify"
      },
      "expansion": "Greek + -ify",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Greek + -ify",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Greekifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Greekifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Greekified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Greekified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Greekify (third-person singular simple present Greekifies, present participle Greekifying, simple past and past participle Greekified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ify",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books, page 101",
          "text": "Although he was an opponent of the populares, no one did more than Cicero to Latinize Greek rhetoric and Greekify Roman oratory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Judy Petsonk, Queen of the Jews: Salome Alexandra, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 281",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make Greek."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Greek",
          "Greek"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Hellenize"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Greekify"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.