# Ἕλλην
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* Ἕλλᾱν (Héllān) — Doric

### Etymology

Μost probably a derivation of Ἑλλοί (Helloí) or Σελλοί (Selloí), the Greek inhabitants of the area around the sanctuary of Dodona (Δωδώνη (Dōdṓnē). The ultimate origin is unknown, possibly Pre-Greek. Related to Ἑλλάς (Hellás).
More at Hellenes.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hél.lɛːn/ → /ˈel.lin/ → /ˈe.lin/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /hél.lɛːn/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈ(h)el.le̝n/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈel.lin/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈel.lin/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈe.lin/

### Noun

Ἕλλην • (Héllēn) m (genitive Ἕλληνος); third declension
* Greek, one who is from Greece or speaks Greek.
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 82b:Σωκράτης: Ἕλλην μέν ἐστι καὶ ἑλληνίζει; Μένων: πάνυ γε σφόδρα, οἰκογενής γε.Sōkrátēs: Héllēn mén esti kaì hellēnízei? Ménōn: pánu ge sphódra, oikogenḗs ge.Socrates: He is a Greek, I suppose, and speaks Greek? Meno: Very much so, in fact home-bred.
* One who participates in Greek culture.
* Often used in Jewish and Christian literature as referring to any non-Jew: Gentile
** Mark 7.26 :ἦν δὲ ἡ γυνὴ Ἑλληνίς Συροφοινίσσα τῷ γένει.ên dè hē gunḕ Hellēnís Surophoiníssa tôi génei.The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation.
* pagan

#### Declension
### Proper noun

Ἕλλην • (Héllēn) m (genitive Ἕλληνος); third declension
* Hellen, the mythical patriarch of the Greeks.

#### Declension
### Derived terms

* Ἑλλάνιος (Hellánios)
* Ἑλλανίς (Hellanís)
* Ἑλλανισμός (Hellanismós)
* Ἑλλανιστί (Hellanistí)
* Ἑλληνάρχης (Hellēnárkhēs)
* ἑλληνίζω (hellēnízō)
* Ἑλληνικός (Hellēnikós)
* Ἑλληνίς (Hellēnís)
* Ἑλληνογαλάται (Hellēnogalátai)
* Ἑλληνοδίκαι (Hellēnodíkai)

### Coordinate terms

* Ᾰ̓ργεῖοι (Ărgeîoi)
* Ἀχαιοί (Akhaioí)
* Δᾰνᾰοί (Dănăoí)

### Descendants

* Greek: Έλλην (Éllin)
* → English: Hellen (proper noun), Hellene (noun) (learned)
* → Old Church Slavonic: єллинъ (ellinŭ), єлинъ (elinŭ) (learned)
* → Latin: Hellēn
** Asturian: helenu
** Catalan: hel·lè
** French: hellène
** Italian: elleno
** Portuguese: heleno
** Romanian: elen
** Spanish: heleno
* → Old Georgian: ელინი (elini)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “Ἕλλην”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “Ἕλλην”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* Ἕλλην in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* G1672 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, pages 1,011, 1,012
* Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN

## Greek
### Alternative forms

* Έλλην (Éllin)

### Etymology

From Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Héllēn).

### Noun

Ἕλλην • (Héllēn) m (plural Ἕλληνες)
* Katharevousa form of Έλληνας (Éllinas, “Greek man”)