half-Greek

• a word derived from Greek.
  Greek

  adjective

  of or relating to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.

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half-Greek

At 25, Sofia is a half-English, half-Greek anthropology student who works in a London cafe called the Coffee House but mostly tends to the petulant demands of her mother, Rose.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2016

Basilides appears, like Philo Judaeus, who lived about the same period, to have been half-Greek, half- Jew, and to have belonged to the celebrated Platonic school of Alexandria.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Now in mineralogy there are many half-Greek and half-Latin terms, very hard to articulate, and which would be most trying to a poet's measures.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne

Just behind them sat their guide, a thin and eager Levantine, half-Greek and half-Armenian, who, for some inscrutable reason, declared that his name was John.

From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens

These they found in the half-Greek, half-cosmopolitan culture which had there taken root and spread widely in the East.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell

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