GREEK CALENDS


Meaning of GREEK CALENDS in English

noun plural

or greek kalends

Usage: usually capitalized G

Etymology: translation of Latin kalendas graecas (in ad kalendas graecas solvere to go without paying, literally, to pay at the Greek calends); from the fact that the Greeks did not reckon time by calends

: a time that will never arrive

a bill he planned to pay at the Greek calends

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