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Headword:
*graikoi/
Adler number: gamma,447
Translated headword: Graikoi, Graeci, Greeks
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the Hellenes.[1] [The name comes] from a certain village,[2] or from a certain Graikos.[3]
[It is formed] out of the [term] Graix, [genitive] Graikos.[4]
Greek Original:*graikoi/: oi( *(/ellhnes. a)po\ kw/mhs tino\s, h)\ a)po\ *graikou= tinos. e)k tou= *grai/c, *graiko/s.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in other lexica. The Parian Marble (FGrH 239) gives 1521/0 BC as regnal date for Hellen the son of Deukalion (
delta 283), during whose reign "those formerly called Graikoi were [re-]named Hellenes."
[2] Here only.
[3] Son of Thessalos, according to
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.
[4] Likewise in
Stephanus, and in the grammarians.
Graix is not independently attested.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 August 2001@06:50:18.
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