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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.

English

Noun

gre (plural gres)

1. Obsolete form of gree.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GER, Ger, Ger., Ger??, Reg, erg, ger, reg

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gré (“step”), from Latin gradus. The senses related to success are potentially from Scottish Gaelic gré.

Alternative forms

• gree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre (plural gres)

1. A step, gree or rung; a part of a staircase or ladder.
2. A stage or level as part of a scale; a level of a discontinuous scale.
3. A degree or extent; a level of a continuous scale.
4. Social or professional standing or status; one's position in society or a subset of it.
5. A degree or generation of ancestry; a stage in one's family history.
6. Success, winning or achievement in battle or sport.
7. (geometry) An angular measurement amounting to 1/360 of a circle.
8. (rare) A degree (educational qualification handed out by tertiary institutions)

Related terms

• degre

Descendants

• English: gree (obsolete)
• Scots: gree

References

• “gr??, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 2

From Old French gré (“goodwill”), from Latin gr?tum, a noun from Latin gr?tus.

Alternative forms

• gree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre (uncountable)

1. A favourable or good attitude; goodwill, kindness.
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale:

     And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.

2. Satisfaction, compensation, understanding.

Related terms

• agre
• greable
• green

Descendants

• English: gree (archaic)
• Scots: gree (obsolete)

References

• “gr??, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 3

Verb

gre

1. Alternative form of green

North Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gr?saz. Compare Mooring gra, Heligolandic grai, Föhr and Wiedingharde grä.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?r?/

Adjective

gre

1. (Sylt) grey

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English grey.

Adjective

gre

1. grey

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gregis (compare Old Irish graig (“horses”)); cognate with Latin grex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre f (plural greoedd)

1. stud (of horses), flock, herd

   Synonyms: haid, gyr, praidd, diadell

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