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Ἑλλην-ίζω , impf. ἑλλήνιζον without augm., Charito 4.5 codd.: aor. Act.
A.“ἑλληνίσαι” D.C.55.3: aor. Pass. without augm., Th.2.68 codd.: pf. Pass. “ἡλλήνισται” J.AJ1.6.1:—speak Greek, “Ἕλλην μέν ἐστι καὶ ἑλληνίζει” Pl.Men.82b, cf. Chrm.159a, Prt.328a, etc.; ἑ. τῇ φωνῇ, τὴν φωνήν, Aeschin.3.172, Charito l.c.; esp. speak or write pure or correct Greek, Arist.Rh.1407a19, D.H.Pomp.2.5; ἄκρως ἑ. S.E.M.1.186; opp. βαρβαρίζω, ib.246.
b. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν ἑλληνίζοι οὕτως τὸ ἐρώτημα λεχθέν would not be Greek, Arist.SE 182a34.
c. speak common Greek, opp. the Attic dialect, “σὺ μὲν ἀττικίζεις . . οἱ δ᾽ Ἕλληνες ἑλληνίζομεν” Posidipp.28.
II. trans., make Greek, Hellenize, “τὴν βάρβαρον” Lib.Or.11.103; translate into Greek, D.C. l.c.:—Pass., ἑλληνισθῆναι τὴν γλῶσσαν ἀπό τινος acquire the Greek language from . ., Th. l.c.; τὰ ὀνόματα . . ἡλλήνισται have assumed an Hellenic form, J.AJ1.6.1.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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