philhellenism

• Philhellenism

< Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “friend, lover”) and ἑλληνισμός (hellēnismós, “hellenism”)

philhellenism (usually uncountable, plural philhellenisms)

1. A 19th-century intellectual movement which supported the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
2. Love of Greece or Greek culture.

• “philhellenism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.