1) Greek 2) Hellenic 3) Hellenic language 4) Language of the New Testament 5) Lingua franca 1) Interlanguage 
dialect that spreads to become common language of a region
the fairly uniform Hellenistic Greek spoken and written from the 4th century until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (mid-6th century ) in ... [5 related articles]originally, a contact variety of the Greek language that was spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean region during the Hellenic and Roman ...
(Grk, 'Common') (1) Common or lower-class Greek as it was spoken throughout the Mediterranean region
[n] - a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire
noun a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire
(usually cap.) an amalgam of Greek dialects, chiefly Attic and Ionic, that replaced the Classical Greek dialects in the Hellenistic period and flourished under the Roman Empire. · a lingua franca.