Ultimately fromLatinGraeco(“Greek”).
grego (pluralgregos)
- A type of roughjacket with ahood.
1851 November 14,Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:Going to his heavygrego, 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.
Borrowed fromLatingregō(“herd, assemble”).
grego (accusative singulargregon,pluralgregoj,accusative pluralgregojn)
- herd,flock
FromOld Galician-Portuguesegrego, fromLatingraecus, fromAncient GreekΓραικός(Graikós).
grego (femininegrega,masculine pluralgregos,feminine pluralgregas)
- Greek
grego m (pluralgregos,femininegrega,feminine pluralgregas)
- Greek person
grego m (uncountable)
- Greek language
grego (femininegrega)
- Greek
Fromgrex(“flock, herd”).
gregō (present infinitivegregāre,perfect activegregāvī,supinegregātum);first conjugation
- toherd,assemble
- “grego”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “grego”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
FromOld Galician-Portuguesegrego, fromLatingraecus, fromAncient GreekΓραικός(Graikós).
- Rhymes:-eɡu
- Hyphenation:gre‧go
grego (femininegrega,masculine pluralgregos,feminine pluralgregas)
- Greek(of or relating to Greece)
- Synonyms:helénico,(combining form)greco-
grego m (pluralgregos,femininegrega,feminine pluralgregas)
- Greek(person from Greece)
- (uncountable)Greek(Indo-European language spoken in Greece and Cyprus)
- (colloquial)Greek(incomprehensible speech or jargon)
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
- Rhymes:-ɛɡu
- Hyphenation:gre‧go
grego
- first-personsingularpresentindicative ofgregar
