different between jacket vs grego

English

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??æk.?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??æk?t/, /?d??æk?t/
• Rhymes: -æk?t
• Hyphenation: jack?et

Noun

jacket (plural jackets)

1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
4. (slang) A police record.
   • 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:

     "I need to look up somebody's jacket."

5. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

   Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

Synonyms

• (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
• (removable protective cover): sleeve

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
   • 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads

     ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.

Derived terms

• bad-jacket
• snitch-jacket

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Graeco (“Greek”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???e????/

Noun

grego (plural gregos)

1. A type of rough jacket with a hood.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.

Anagrams

• Gorge, Rogge, gorge

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??re?o/
• Hyphenation: gre?go
• Rhymes: -e?o

Noun

grego (accusative singular gregon, plural gregoj, accusative plural gregojn)

1. herd, flock

Derived terms

• gregano

See also

• brutaro

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese grego, from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Graikós).

Adjective

grego m (feminine singular grega, masculine plural gregos, feminine plural gregas)

1. Greek

Noun

grego m (plural gregos, feminine grega, feminine plural gregas)

1. Greek person

grego m (uncountable)

1. Greek language

Related terms

• Grecia

Ladino

Adjective

grego (Latin spelling, feminine grega)

1. Greek

Latin

Etymology

From grex (“flock, herd”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??re.?o?/, [??r??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??re.?o/, [??r????]

Verb

greg? (present infinitive greg?re, perfect active greg?v?, supine greg?tum); first conjugation

1. I herd, assemble

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• grex

References

• grego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• grêgo (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese grego, from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Graikós).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???e.?u/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???e.?u/
• Hyphenation: gre?go

Adjective

grego m (feminine singular grega, masculine plural gregos, feminine plural gregas, comparable)

1. Greek (of, from or relating to Greece)

   Synonyms: helénico, (combining form) greco-

Noun

grego m (plural gregos, feminine grega, feminine plural gregas)

1. Greek (person from Greece)
2. (uncountable) Greek (Indo-European language spoken in Greece and Cyprus)
3. (colloquial) Greek (incomprehensible speech or jargon)

Derived terms

Related terms

• Grécia