Graecus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- graecus (alternative case form)
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡrae̯.kus/, [ˈɡräe̯kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡre.kus/, [ˈɡrɛːkus]
Adjective edit
Graecus (feminine Graeca, neuter Graecum); first/second-declension adjective
- 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.
- Graecum est, non legitur.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | Graecus | Graeca | Graecum | Graecī | Graecae | Graeca | |
| Genitive | Graecī | Graecae | Graecī | Graecōrum | Graecārum | Graecōrum | |
| Dative | Graecō | Graecō | Graecīs | ||||
| Accusative | Graecum | Graecam | Graecum | Graecōs | Graecās | Graeca | |
| Ablative | Graecō | Graecā | Graecō | Graecīs | |||
| Vocative | Graece | Graeca | Graecum | Graecī | Graecae | Graeca | |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: grek
- Aromanian: grec
- Asturian: griegu
- Catalan: grec
- → Danish: græsk (adjective), → Danish: græker (noun)
- → Dutch: Griek
- → English: Greek
- → Middle French: grec
- 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
- Venetian: greco
- → Welsh: Groeg
- → Proto-West Germanic: *Krēkō (see there for further descendants)
Noun edit
Graecus m sg (genitive Graecī, feminine Graeca); second declension
- a Greek (person)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |
| Nominative | Graecus | Graeca | Graecī | Graecae | |
| Genitive | Graecī | Graecae | Graecōrum | Graecārum | |
| Dative | Graecō | Graecīs | Graecīs | ||
| Accusative | Graecum | Graecam | Graecōs | Graecās | |
| Ablative | Graecō | Graecā | Graecīs | Graecīs | |
| Vocative | Graece | Graeca | Graecī | Graecae | |
References edit
- 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