Greek

Etymology
From, variant of , from , from of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym  or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii. See also the articles on "" and "". Greek in any case has the cognate, the mythological ancestor of the. Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from and classical. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English and earlier Middle English. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture
 * , used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
 * 1)  Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, and/or  honor societies.
 * 1)  Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, and/or  honor societies.

Usage notes
Currently, it's more common to refer to college fraternities and sororities as etc., while  is still used in reference to honor societies using similar names.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:Greek

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, greke, , greshit, elin, eline,
 * Arvanite: shkla
 * Arabic: يُونَانِيّ, إِغْرِيقِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: յունական
 * Aromanian: grec, greacã, grache, gãrtsescu, gãrtseascã, grãtsescu, grãtseascã
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bavarian: Griachische
 * Belarusian: грэ́цкі, грэ́часкі
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဂရိ
 * Carpathian Rusyn: ґре́цькый
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲟⲩⲉⲓⲛⲓⲛ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kreeka
 * Faroese: grikskur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, საბერძნეთის
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Ἑλληνικός
 * Hawaiian: Helene
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Irish: Gréagach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: грек
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ຍວນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: grieķisks, grieķu
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: griichesch
 * Macedonian: грчки
 * Malay:
 * Mingrelian: ბერძენული ნინა
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: грек
 * Mongolian: ᠭᠷᠧᠻ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: грьчьскъ
 * Old East Slavic: грьчьскъ
 * Old English: Crēċisċ
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гр̏чкӣ
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kigiriki
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: grek
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: یونانی
 * Uyghur: گرېك, يۇنان
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: Groegaidd
 * Yiddish: גריכיש

Proper noun

 * 1) The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
 * 2) The written form of these languages.

Usage notes
In modern contexts including Wiktionary's entries, Greek is used for the language of modern Greece and or one of its synonyms for the language of antiquity. In discussion of antiquity, Greek is frequently used to mean the ancient form sometimes inclusive of Koine and or one of its synonyms is used to distinguish the modern language. In all cases, minor dialects like are distinguished unless absolutely clear from context.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐔴𐔾𐔾𐔰𐕒𐕡𐔿𐔰
 * Albanian: (adverb), ,
 * Amharic: ግሪክኛ
 * Arabic: اليُونَانِيَّة, اللُّغَة اليُونَانِيَّة, يُونَانِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: յունարէն
 * Aromanian: gãrtseashti, gãrtseashte (adverb), limba gãrtseascã, limba greacã, limba grache
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: Јунан,
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: грэ́цкая мо́ва, грэ́цкая, грэ́чаская мо́ва,
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎬᎵᎧ, ᎪᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 希臘文
 * Mandarin: 希臘8語
 * Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲟⲩⲉⲓⲛⲓⲛ
 * Cornish: Greka
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kreeka
 * Ewe: Helagbe
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, kreikan kieli
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:, griechische Sprache
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Ἑλληνική, Ἑλληνιστί
 * Greenlandic: grækerisut
 * Hausa: Yunananci
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:
 * Inuktitut: ᒡᕇᓯᑐᑦ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Yonanî,
 * Latin: lingua graeca,, graecē
 * Latvian: grieķu, grieķu valoda, grieķu
 * Ligurian: grêgo
 * Limburgish: Greeksj
 * Lithuanian:, Graĩkiškai
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: Graiks
 * German Low German:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: гр́чки (ја́зик)
 * Malay: bahasa Yunani,
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: reo Kariki
 * Moksha: грекань
 * Mongolian: грек
 * Navajo: Gwíík bizaad
 * Norman: Grec
 * Norwegian:, hellenesk
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: Crēċisċ
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, limba greacă limba grecească, greceşte
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: грчки
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:, ග්‍රීක භාෂාව
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: grichišćina
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Kigiriki
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: கிரேக்கம்
 * Tatar: грек
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ግሪከኛ
 * Tooro: Orugiriiki
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: یونانی
 * Uyghur: گرېكچە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: tiếng Hy-lạp,
 * Walloon: Grek
 * Welsh:
 * West Flemish: Grieks
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: גריכיש
 * Zulu: Isigrikhi

Noun

 * 1)  A person from Greece or of Greek descent.
 * 2)  Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
 * , used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
 * , dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
 * 1)  A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.
 * 2)  A cunning rogue.
 * 3)  A merry fellow.
 * 4)  Anal sex.
 * 5) * 2001, "ASP: 'Julie' of Oral-Land-Oh", alt.sex.prostitution, Usenet:
 * She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek. (Well...I say “no Greek” - - if she is really hot for you, and if she is really turned on in a long session, she might beg for a finger in her anus while you suck her clit, but she is just too tiny and tight for any “real meat” in the backdoor.)
 * 1)  One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
 * 1)  A merry fellow.
 * 2)  Anal sex.
 * 3) * 2001, "ASP: 'Julie' of Oral-Land-Oh", alt.sex.prostitution, Usenet:
 * She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek. (Well...I say “no Greek” - - if she is really hot for you, and if she is really turned on in a long session, she might beg for a finger in her anus while you suck her clit, but she is just too tiny and tight for any “real meat” in the backdoor.)
 * 1)  One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
 * 1)  One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:Greek
 * See Thesaurus:anal sex

Translations

 * Abkhaz: абырзе́н, аелы́н
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, greke, gërk , gërqinjë
 * Arabic: يُونَانِيّ,
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: յոյն
 * Aromanian: grec, greacã, grache
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: грэк, грача́нка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, гърки́ня
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎪᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲛⲓⲛ
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Demotic: wynn
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: greko, grekino, , helenino
 * Estonian: kreeklane
 * Ewe: Helatɔ
 * Faroese: grikki
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: grêc, greghe, greche
 * Galician:, grega
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌺𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: Ἕλλην, Ἑλληνίς, Γραικός, Γραικίτις
 * Hawaiian: Helene
 * Hebrew:, יווניה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: orang yunani
 * Interlingua:, greca
 * Irish: Gréagach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ギリシア人, ギリシャ人
 * Kazakh: грек
 * Korean:, 그리스 사람
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: grieķis, grieķiete
 * Laz: ურუმი
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Luxembourgish: Griich, Griichin
 * Macedonian: Грк, Гркинка
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:, Griega, Griegi
 * Maori: Kariki
 * Mingrelian: ბერზენი
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: grec, grecca
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: grecu, greca
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Гр̏к, Гр̏киња
 * Roman:, Gȑkinja
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, Gŕkinja
 * Spanish: ,
 * Svan: ბერზენ
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:,  ,
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: grek
 * Ukrainian:, греча́нка,
 * Urdu: یُوْنانی
 * Uyghur: گرېك, يۇنان
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian:, greca
 * Vietnamese: người Hy Lạp
 * West Frisian: Gryk
 * Yiddish: גריך

Verb

 * 1)  To cheat at cards.