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 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gregō (“herd, assemble”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡreɡo]

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• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Hyphenation: gre‧go

Noun

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

1. herd, flock

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾeɣʊ]

Adjective

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

1. Greek

Noun

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

1. Greek person

Noun

grego m (uncountable)

1. Greek language

Adjective

grego (Latin spelling, feminine grega)

1. Greek

Etymology

From grex (“flock, herd”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.ɡoː/, [ˈɡrɛɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.ɡo/, [ˈɡrɛːɡo]

Verb

gregō (present infinitive gregāre, perfect active gregāvī, future participle gregātūrus); first conjugation

1. to 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.

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.