Γραικός

Etymology
Aristotle was one of the first to use the name Graeci (Γραικοί), saying that the area about Dodona and Achelous was inhabited by the Selloi (Σελλοὶ) and a people formerly called Graeci and now Hellenes.

According to one hypothesis, the name means "from ", a city on the coast of Boeotia, and was a name given to the Greeks of Southern Italy by the Romans. The city's name itself means “grey, venerable” from. This is in stark contrast to eastern names for the Greeks based on ‘’.

Adjective

 * 1) Greek

Proper noun

 * 1) Graecus, a character in Greek mythology, said to be a son of Thessalos, the king of Phthia; or else a son of Pandora and Zeus.

Noun

 * 1) a Graecian, a member of an ancient Boeotian tribe that migrated to Italy.

Etymology
Hellenistic reborrowing from Latin, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

 * 1)  Greek

Usage notes

 * Used in Byzantium and during Ottoman rule. Although the word has carried a derogatory sense from the roman, , and its occidental descendants, the word was redeemed in the lips of the revolutionary Athanasios Diakos who said before his impalement: