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frex
English
Adverb
frex
- (informal) Abbreviation of for example.
Synonyms
- e.g./eg
- ex.
Anagrams
- xfer
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grex
English
Etymology
Latin grex (“flock”).
Noun
grex (plural greges or grexes)
- (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
- (horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents, in particular for orchids.
- Synonym: gx
Further reading
- Grex (horticulture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h?ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See also Spanish grey (“flock, crowd”) Lithuanian gurguole (“mass, crowd”) and gurgulys (“chaos, confusion”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (grusti, “handful”), Sanskrit ?? (ga?á, “flock, troop, group”) and ????? (gr??ma, “troop, collection, multitude; village, tribe”), and Ancient Greek ?????? (ageír?, “I gather, collect”), whence ????? (agorá). See Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?reks/, [?r?ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?reks/, [?r?ks]
Noun
grex m (genitive gregis); third declension
- (zoology) A group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.
- (figuratively) A similar group of other things, particularly:
- A group of people: a crowd, a clique, a company, a band, a troop, etc.
- (sports) A team of charioteers.
- (theater) A troupe of actors.
Usage notes
Properly, a herd or drove of larger animals form a pecus n, a iumentum (when pulling carts), or a armenta (when pulling a plow), while smaller animals—especially domesticated pecud?s—form a grex. Its use for people is not necessarily pejorative in the way pecus is.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Hyponyms
- pecus
Derived terms
- greg?lis
- greg?rius
- greg?tim
Related terms
- greg?
Descendants
References
- grex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- grex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- grex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- "Pecus; Jumentum; Armentum; Grex" in H.H. Arnold's translation of Ludwig von Döderlein's Hand-Book of Latin Synonymes (1841), pp. 158–9.
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