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Greek

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–adjective

1.	of or pertaining to Greece, the Greeks, or their language.

2.	pertaining to the Greek Orthodox Church.

noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic form of writing and employing some letters that originally represented consonants for vowel sounds, which was used from about the beginning of the first millennium b.c. for the writing of Greek, and from which the Latin, Cyrillic, and other alphabets were derived.

–noun

4.	a native or inhabitant of Greece.

5.	the language of the ancient Greeks and any of the languages that have developed from it, as Hellenistic Greek, Biblical Greek, the Koine, and Modern Greek. Abbreviation: Gk, Gk.

6.	Informal. anything unintelligible, as speech, writing, etc.: This contract is Greek to me.

7.	a member of the Greek Church.

8.	Hellenic (def. 3).

9.	a person who belongs to a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority.

10.	Archaic. a cheater, esp. one who cheats at cards: usually considered offensive.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE Grēcas (pl.) < L Graecī the Greeks (nom. pl. of Graecus) < Gk Graikoí, pl. of Graikós Greek

Related forms:

Greekdom, noun

Greekish, adjective

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Hel⋅len⋅ic

[he-len-ik, -lee-nik]

–adjective

1.	of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def. 3).

Greek.

–noun

3.	Also called Greek. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, comprising a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern dialects and languages, all of them called Greek.

4.	Katharevusa.

Origin:
1635–45; < Gk Hellēnikós of, pertaining to the Greeks. See Hellene, -ic

Related forms:

Hel⋅len⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb

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Greek (grēk)

1. The Indo-European language of the Greeks.
2. Greek language and literature from the middle of the eighth century B.C. to the end of the third century A.D., especially the Attic Greek of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
3. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
4. A person of Greek ancestry.
1. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
2. A person of Greek ancestry.
Informal A member of a fraternity or sorority that has its name composed of Greek letters.
Informal Something that is unintelligible: Quantum mechanics is Greek to me.

adj. Of or relating to Greece or its people, language, or culture.

[Middle English Grek, from Old English Grēcas, the Greeks, from Latin Graecus, Greek, from Greek Graikos, tribal name.]

Word Origin & History

Hellenic

1644, from Gk. Hellenikos, from Hellen "a Greek," first used by Homer in ref. to a Thessalian tribe. Hellenistic (1874) refers to Gk. culture after Alexander; the term Hellenism in this sense was coined 1836 by Ger. historian Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-84).

Greek

O.E. Crecas (pl.), early Gmc. borrowing from L. Græci "the Hellenes," from Gk. Grakoi. Aristotle, who was the first to use Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes ("Meteorologica" I.xiv) wrote that it was the name originally used by Illyrians for the Dorians in Epirus, from Graii, native name of the people of Epirus. But a modern theory (put forth by Ger. classical historian Georg Busolt, 1850-1920), derives it from Graikhos "inhabitant of Graia" (lit. "gray"), a town on the coast of Boeotia, which was the name given by the Romans to all Greeks, originally to the Gk. colonists from Graia who helped found Cumae (9c. B.C.E.), the important city in southern Italy where the Latins first encountered Greeks. It was reborrowed in this general sense by the Greeks. Meaning "unintelligible speech, gibberish" is from 1600. Meaning "Greek letter fraternity member" is student slang, 1900.

"It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author -- and not to learn it better." [Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil," 1886]

Greek gift is from "Æneid," II.49: "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." The Gmc. languages originally borrowed the word with an initial -k- sound (cf. O.H.G. Chrech, Goth. Kreks), which was probably their initial sound closest to the Latin -g- at the time; the word was later refashioned.

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Greeks

Refers to the Greek letters used in options trading.

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