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Greek (grēk)

noun

  1. a person born or living in ancient or modern Greece
  2. the language of the Greeks, constituting a separate branch of the Indo-European language family
  3. ancient Greek, esp. that of the classical period (c. 8th-4th cent. )
  4. ☆ Informal a member of a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority

Etymology: ME Greke < OE Grec < L Graecus < Gr Graikos, name orig. used by Illyrians for the Dorians in Epirus (< Grāi, Grāii < Grāes, native name of the people of Epirus); later applied by the people of Italy to all Hellenes

adjective

  1. of ancient or modern Greece or its people, language, or culture
  2. designating or of Greek Catholics or the Greek Orthodox Church

Etymology: ME Grec < the n. & < Fr grec < L Graecus

Greek Idioms

be Greek to someone

to be incomprehensible or unintelligible to someone

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Greek Synonyms

Greek

modif.

Hellenic, Hellenistic, Helladic, Minoan, Dorian, Attic, Boeotian, Athenian, Spartan, Peloponnesian, Ionian, Corinthian, Thessalonian, ancient, classic, Homeric; see also classical 2.


Greek

n.

  1. A citizen of Greece

    Hellene, Athenian, Spartan, Achaean, Dorian, Ionian, Corinthian, Thessalonian, Arcadian, Boeotian, Argolid, Laconian, Messenian, Attican, Peloponnesian.

  2. The Greek language

    Hellenic, Ionic, New Ionic, Attic, Æolic, Doric, Modern Greek, Romaic, Neo-Hellenic, language of Homer, koine, demotic Greek, hieratic Greek.


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Greek quotes

Graeca non leguntur. Things in Greek are not read.

-Anonymous

There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122

-Bible (NewTestament)

Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

-Bible (NewTestament)

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