Meaning

noun the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

noun a native or inhabitant of Greece

adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language

originInherited from Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii. Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch…

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