Greek
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English
Pronunciation
- SAMPA: /gri:k/
Etymology
Dutch griek, from German Grieche, from Latin Graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός
Proper Noun
Greek, plural Greeks
- Inhabitant of Greece, person of Greek descent
- A language spoken primarily in Greece and Cyprus wich is spoken for more than 4000 years now. Probably the "mother" of ALL Indo-European languages, since a lot of its words are found in all of them. There are several dialects; Modern Greek is derived from Ancient Greek.
- A member of a fraternity or sorority
- "Was Joe a Greek in college?"
Translations
Inhabitant of Greece, or descendant
- Bulgarian: грък m, гъркиня f, гърци m pl, гъркини f pl
- Catalan: grec m grega f
- Chinese, simplified: 希腊人 ( pinyin: Xīlà-rén ) ;
- Chinese, traditional: 希臘人 ( pinyin: Xīlà-rén )
- Danish: græker
- Dutch: Griek m, Griekse f
- Esperanto: greko
- Finnish: kreikkalainen
- French: grec m, grecque f
- German: Grieche m, Griechin f
- Greek: Έλληνας m (Éllinas), Ελληνίδα f (Ellinída)
- Hebrew: יווני (Ye'va'ni) m, יווניה (Ye'va'ni'a) f
- Hungarian: görög
- Indonesian: orang yunani
- Interlingua: greco m, greca f
- Italian: greco m, greca f
- Japanese: ギリシア人 (girishia-jin), ギリシャ人 (girisha-jin)
- Latin: Graeca f, Graecus m
- Polish: Grek m, Greczynka f
- Portuguese: grego m, grega f
- Romanian: grec m, grecoaică f, greci m pl, grecoaice f pl
- Slovak: Grék m, Grékyňa f
- Spanish: griego m, griega f
- Swedish: grek m, grekiska f
- Turkish: yunani
Language spoken in Greece
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member of a fraternity or sorority
Adjective
Greek
- Of Greece, Greek people, or the Greek language
- Unintelligible, especially regarding foreign speech
- It's all Greek to me.
Translations
- Bulgarian: гръцки (Gr'chki)
- Catalan: grec m grega f
- Dutch: Grieks, Griekse
- Esperanto: greka
- Finnish: kreikkalainen (1), hepreaa (2, partitive case)
- French: grec m, grecque f
- German: griechisch
- Greek: ελληνικός (ellinikós)
- Hungarian: görög
- Interlingua: grec, greco m, greca f
- Latin: Graeca f, Graecus m, Graecum n
- Polish: grecki m, grecka f, greckie n
- Portuguese: grego m, grega f
- Romanian: grec, grecesc m, greacă, grecească f, greci, greceşti m pl, grece†, greceşti f pl
- Slovak: grécky m, grécka f, grécke n
- Spanish: Griego m, Griega f
- Swedish: grekisk
- Turkish: yunani
Synonyms
- Grecian
- Hellenic
Verb
greek (past and past participle: greeked)
- To display a placeholder instead of text, especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read
- To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form and not content can be focused on
Derived terms
- Ancient Greek
- Classical Greek
- El Greco
- Grecian
- Greco-Roman
- Greek alphabet
- Greek numbers
- Greek Orthodox
- The Greek System
- It's all Greek to me
- Koine Greek
- Modern Greek
- greeking
See also
- Dhimotiki
- Hellenic
- Hellenism
- Hellenistic
- Hellenize
- Katharevousa
- Wikipedia article on the Greek language
- Greek - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
- Koine
