different between grew vs grex

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Middle English grew, from Old English gr?ow (first and third person past tense of gr?wan), from West Germanic *greu, from Northwest Germanic *grer?, from Proto-Germanic *gegr? (first and third person past tense of *gr?an?), reduplication of *gr?an?.

Verb

grew

1. simple past tense of grow
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of grow

Etymology 2

Verb

grew (third-person singular simple present grews, present participle grewing, simple past and past participle grewed)

1. Alternative form of grue (“shudder with fear”)

English

Etymology

Latin grex (“flock”).

Noun

grex (plural greges or grexes)

1. (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
2. (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

1. (zoology) A group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.
2. (figuratively) A similar group of other things, particularly:
   1. A group of people: a crowd, a clique, a company, a band, a troop, etc.
   2. (sports) A team of charioteers.
   3. (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.