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Middle English
Etymology
From Old English grēat (“big”), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grete (comparative gretter or greter, superlative grettest or gretest)
- great, massive, amazing
1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:And I seide, “Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir […] ”- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
References
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
grēte
- inflection of grētan:
- first-person singular present indicative
- singular present/preterite subjunctive
- second-person singular preterite indicative
Portuguese
Verb
grete
- inflection of gretar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative