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Hellas

/ˈhɛləs/

Rhymes with -ɛləs

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). Doublet of Ellada.

proper noun

Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece. Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.

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name Greek name for Greece

中文	希臘 /希腊 Xīlà
हिन्दी	हेलस helas
Português	Hélade
Français	Hellade, Grèce
Deutsch	Hellas, Griechenland
Italiano	Grecia
Ελληνικά	Ελλάδα Elláda
Română	Elada
Русский	Элла́да Elláda

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@misc{hellas_2026,
  title = {Hellas},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hellas},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}