different between grece vs grebe

English

Etymology

From Middle English grece (“staircase”), from Old French grez, greis et al., plural of gre (“gree”) taken as a collective singular.

Noun

grece (plural greces)

1. (obsolete) A flight of stairs.
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Steps, stairs.

Anagrams

• cerge

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French grez, plural of gré (which is the source of gre).

Alternative forms

• grees, grese, greez, greese, greece

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?s/

Noun

grece (plural greces)

1. A step; a part of a staircase or set of stairs.
2. A staircase; a set of stairs composing an upwards climb.

Derived terms

• gresynge

Descendants

• English: grece (obsolete)
• Scots: grece (obsolete)
• ? Welsh: gris

References

• “gr??s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia.

Alternative forms

• grees, grese, greez, gres, gresse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r??s(?)/

Noun

grece (plural greces)

1. Fat derived from animals (including humans)
2. Processed and melted animal fat used in cooking or anointing; grease.
3. Grease used to start or help fires.
4. A greasy unguent or salve; grease as a medicament.

Derived terms

• grecen
• gresynge

Descendants

• English: grease
• Scots: gree (a back-formation)

References

• “gr?s(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 3

From Old English græs.

Noun

grece

1. Alternative form of gras

Etymology 4

From grece (noun).

Verb

grece

1. Alternative form of grecen

Old French

Alternative forms

• graise, graisse, grese, gresse

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *crassia, from Latin crassus, see also Occitan graissa, Catalan greix.

Noun

grece f (oblique plural greces, nominative singular grece, nominative plural greces)

1. fat (fatty material)
2. grease

Descendants

• ? Middle English: grece
  • English: grease

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ret??e]

Noun

grece f pl

1. indefinite plural of greac?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of greac?

English

Etymology

From French grèbe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?b/
• Rhymes: -i?b

Noun

grebe (plural grebes)

1. Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.

Synonyms

• (any of several waterbirds): dabchick

Translations

Anagrams

• Gebre, gerbe

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

grebe (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of grebati

Verb

grebe (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of grepsti