Greek
adjective/ɡriːk/
/ɡriːk/
- of or connected with Greece, its people or their languageWord OriginOld English Grēcas ‘the Greeks’, from Latin Graeci (the name given by the Romans to the people who called themselves the Hellenes), from Greek Graikoi, which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes.
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