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English
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin Graeco (“Greek”).
Pronunciation
Noun
grego (plural gregos)
- A type of rough jacket with a hood.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gregō (“herd, assemble”).
Pronunciation
Noun
grego (accusative singular gregon, plural gregoj, accusative plural gregojn)
- herd, flock
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese grego, from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
grego (feminine grega, masculine plural gregos, feminine plural gregas)
- Greek
Noun
grego m (plural gregos, feminine grega, feminine plural gregas)
- Greek person
Noun
grego m (uncountable)
- Greek language
Ladino
Adjective
grego (feminine grega)
- Greek
Latin
Etymology
From grex (“flock, herd”).
Pronunciation
Verb
gregō (present infinitive gregāre, perfect active gregāvī, supine gregātum); first conjugation
- to herd, assemble
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “grego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- grego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese grego, from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɡu
- Hyphenation: gre‧go
Adjective
grego (feminine grega, masculine plural gregos, feminine plural gregas)
- Greek (of or relating to Greece)
- Synonyms: helénico, (combining form) greco-
Derived terms
Noun
grego m (plural gregos, feminine grega, feminine plural gregas)
- Greek (person from Greece)
- (uncountable) Greek (Indo-European language spoken in Greece and Cyprus)
- (colloquial) Greek (incomprehensible speech or jargon)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: gre‧go
Verb
grego
- first-person singular present indicative of gregar