Graecus

• graecus (alternative case form)

From Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrae̯.kus/, [ˈɡräe̯kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.kus/, [ˈɡrɛːkus]

Graecus (feminine Graeca, neuter Graecum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Greek, Grecian, of or pertaining to the Greek people.

   ritus Graecus

   Greek rite

   • 1736. Henrici Stephani de abusu linguae graecae in quibusdam vocibus quas latina usurpat admonitio. Io. Henr. Kromayeri adnotationibus nondum editis instructam denuo publicavit Frider. Guiliel. Roloffius, in the praefatio:

     Graecum est, non legitur.

     It's Greek, it cannot be read.

First/second-declension adjective.

• interpretātiō graeca

• → Albanian: grek
• Aromanian: grec
• Asturian: griegu
• Catalan: grec
• → Danish: græsk (adjective), → Danish: græker (noun)
• → Dutch: Griek
• → English: Greek
• → Middle French: grec
  • French: grec
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: grecque
• Friulian: grêc
• Galician: grego
• → German: griechisch (adjective), → German: Grieche (noun)
• → Gothic: 𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌺𐍃 (krēks)
• Greek: Γραικός (Graikós)
• Italian: greco
• → Middle Persian: [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (gryk'y' /⁠grîkâyâ⁠/) (In Kartir inscriptions)
• Occitan: grèc
• Old French: griu, grieu, grezois
  • French: grive, pie-grièche, ortie-grièche, grégeois
  • Norman: graïve (Guernsey), grive (Jersey)
• Piedmontese: grech
• Portuguese: grego
• Romanian: grec
• Romansch: grec
• Sardinian: aregu
• Sicilian: grecu
• Spanish: griego, gringo
  • → English: gringo
• Venetan: greco
• → Welsh: Groeg
• → Proto-West Germanic: *Krēkō (see there for further descendants)

Graecus m sg (genitive Graecī, feminine Graeca); second declension

1. a Greek (person)

First/second-declension adjective.

• Graecus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Graecus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Graecus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray