Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

greekify

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: greek-i-fy
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

to make Greek.

Example Sentences

"Although he was an opponent of the populares, no one did more than Cicero to Latinize Greek rhetoric and Greekify Roman oratory."
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From Greek + -ify.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Greek

Inflected Forms

Greekifies (present, singular) Greekifying (participle, present) Greekified (participle, past) Greekified (past)

Synonyms

Hellenize

Questions

What does greekify mean?: to make Greek.
Where does greekify come from?: From Greek + -ify.

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