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English

Etymology

First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek ????? (Órkos), the personified demon of oaths (????? (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon perjurers. Doublet of orc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.??/
• (US) enPR: ??gûr, IPA^(key): /?o?.??/
• Rhymes: -????(r)

Noun

ogre (plural ogres)

1. (mythology) A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
2. (figuratively) A brutish man reminiscent of the mythical ogre.

Related terms

• ogreish, ogrish
• ogress
• ogry

Translations

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Gore, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, gore, orge, rego, roge

French

Etymology

From Old French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”), with metathesis. According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, first attested in the late 12th century meaning 'fierce non-Christian', and ca. 1300 meaning 'human-eating giant' (in fairy tales). Cognate with Old Spanish huerco (“the Devil”), Spanish huerco (“depressed man in the dark”), Italian orco (“ogre, orc”).

See also French lutin (“imp, pixie”), possibly from Old French netun (“marine monster”), derived from Latin Nept?nus, and also Old French gene (“mischievous fairy”) and Romanian zân? (“fairy”), both inherited forms of Latin Di?na. A sermon by Merovingian French bishop St. Eligius (died 659) advises people against belief in Neptune, Diana, Orcus and Minerva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

ogre m (plural ogres, feminine ogresse)

1. (mythology) ogre

Derived terms

• l'ogre de Corse (“Napoleon Bonaparte”)
• manger comme un ogre
• ogrerie
• ogresque

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Further reading

• “ogre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orge

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?????/

Noun

ogre m (plural ogres, feminine ogra, feminine plural ogras)

1. (Portugal) Alternative form of ogro

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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