GREEK

I. noun Etymology: Middle English Greke, from Old English Grēca, from Latin Graecus, from ~ Graikos Date: before 12th century 1. a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Greece, a person of ~ descent, 2. the language used by the ~s from prehistoric times to the present constituting a branch of Indo-European, ancient ~ as used from the time of the earliest records to the end of the second century A.D., something unintelligible , a member of a ~-letter fraternity or sorority, II. adjective Date: 14th century of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece, the ~s, or ~ , 2. Eastern Orthodox , of or relating to an Eastern church using the Byzantine rite in ~, of or relating to the established Orthodox church of Greece, of or relating to fraternities or sororities