Main Entry:: ¹Greek
Pronunciation:: \ˈgrēk\
Function:: noun
Etymology:: Middle English Greke, from Old English Grēca, from Latin Graecus, from Greek Graikos
Date:: before 12th century

1 a: a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Greece b: a person of Greek descent2 a: the language used by the Greeks from prehistoric times to the present constituting a branch of Indo-European — see indo-european languages table b: ancient Greek as used from the time of the earliest records to the end of the second century a.d. — see indo-european languages table coften not capitalized [translation of Latin Graecum (in the medieval phrase Graecum est; non potest legi Italian is Greek; it cannot be read)] : something unintelligible <it's Greek to me>3: a member of a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority

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