grego

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Graeco (“Greek”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹeɪɡəʊ/

Noun

grego (plural gregos)

1. A type of rough jacket with a hood.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Going to his heavy grego, 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.

Anagrams

• Gorge, Rogge, gorge

Noun

grego (accusative singular gregon, plural gregoj, accusative plural gregojn)

1. herd, flock

See also

• brutaro

Etymology

From Old Portuguese grego, from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).

Adjective

grego m (feminine singular grega, masculine plural gregos, feminine plural gregas)

1. Greek

Noun

grego m (plural gregos)

1. Greek person

Proper noun

grego m

1. Greek language

Adjective

grego m (Latin spelling)

1. Greek

Etymology

From grex (“flock, herd”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.ɡoː/, [ˈɡrɛ.ɡoː]

Verb

gregō (present infinitive gregāre, perfect active gregāvī, supine gregātum); first conjugation

1. I herd, assemble

References

• grego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Alternative forms

• grêgo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese grego, from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.ɣu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: gre‧go

Adjective

grego m (feminine singular grega, masculine plural gregos, feminine plural gregas, comparable)

1. Greek (of, from or relating to Greece)

Noun

grego m (plural gregos, feminine grega, feminine plural gregas)

1. Greek (person from Greece)
2. (uncountable) Greek (Indo-European language spoken in Greece and Cyprus)
3. (colloquial) Greek (incomprehensible speech or jargon)