Greek or Hellene (a native, citizen or inhabitant of Greece, or someone who has Greek (Hellenic) ancestry) · for adjectival use, see έλληνας (éllinas)
çekim: çoğul έλληνες · tamlayan έλληνα
köken: From Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek, Hellene”), from the accusative singular τόν (tón, “the”) Ἕλληνα (Héllēna, “Greek, Hellene”). In Hellenistic Christian times: "Gentile, pagan". In Medieval Greek, the sense was either a "Greek" or a derogatory term for an "idolater" (calling himself Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), regaining its "Greek" sense after the 11th century. In Early Modern Greek the ethnonymic…
Ήρθαν ένας Έλληνας και μία Ελληνίδα. Είναι οι έλληνες φίλοι μου.