Greekishadj.n.

/ˈɡriːkɪʃ/

Forms: Old English grécisc, Middle English grekisc, (Middle English gerkisc), Middle English grikisc, grickischs, Middle English grickisshe, (Middle English northern greckes, grekkis), Middle English crekische, crekkyshe, grekkisch, grekyssch, grekeshe, Middle English–1500s grekish(e, grekysh, grekysshe, (1500s greakishe), 1500s– Greekish.

Etymology: In branch I, representing Old English crécisc , grécisc (= Old High German crêhhisc , crêchisc ), < Créc-as , Gréc-as (see Greek n.) + -isc , -ish suffix¹. In branch II, a new formation on Greek n. or Greek adj. + -ish suffix¹.

A. adj.

I. Of Greece or the Greek people.

1. Of or relating to Greece or the Greeks; Greek, Grecian. archaic.

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2121 All on þis side þe grekkisch [Trin. Cambr. grickisshe, Vesp. greckes, Fairf. grekkis] see.

a1400 Octouian 1837 I suede hem to the Grekyssch see.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xiii They met a grekishe shyp.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. clix. f. clxviii^v/2 He beynge there amonge the grekysshe Phylosophers.

1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Biiij^v A Greekish Carmosa, which came into Arrabia to steale Negroes.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K2^v The..famous light of all the Greekish hosts.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xvi. 760 To make wine like vnto greekish wine.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 220 All the Greekish heads, which with one voice, Call Agamemnon head and generall.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 207 Diodorus Siculus..went on with the Greekish historie.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 309 The very Names of many of the Greekish Gods, were originally Egyptian.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 45 An ancient sort of Greekish Bricks.

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. iii. 6 Muse, that from top of thine old Greekish hill, Didst the harp-fumbling Theban younker view.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 163 A certain island-man of old..Voyaged awhile in Greekish seas.

†2. With reference to the language, its words, phrases, etc.; = Greek adj. 2. Also occasionally of a person: Speaking Greek. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Greek

Greekishc900

Grewc1400

Greek1548

Grecanic1601

Grecanical1678

Helladian1773

c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. ii. 258 Heora discipulas wæron wel gelærde ge in Grecisc gereorde ge in Lædenisc.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Episcopus is gerkisc noma.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4307 Affter grickisshe spæche.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4304 Writenn o grickisshe boc.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. i. 21 (Sk.) In the nethereste hem or bordure of thise clothes men redden..a Grekissh P, that signifyeth the lyf Actif.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) 215 The latyns vnderstode no grekysshe language.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 9^v The outward part..spreadyng like vnto the winges of Battes, called therfore by the Grekish name, πτερυγοειδεις.

1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. 26 Two hundred followed of the Greekish tong.

1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 87 They speake all Greeke..Wilt thou, fourescore and six, be Greekish now?

†3. Of or relating to the Orthodox Churches: = Greek adj. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [adjective]

Greek1564

eastern1572

Greciana1600

Greekish1606

Abassian1679

Anatolian1679

Eastern Orthodox1701

orthodox1716

Anatolic1839

1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll2 Andronicus Paleologus the elder..returned againe to the Greekish Rites.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iii. iii. 30 The Greekish Church (so the Russes terme themselues).

1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Inquisition 56 The power of punishing offences in the Greekish Church, hath alwayes beene in the Prince.

4. In special collocations: † Greekish fire n. Obsolete = Greek fire n. at Greek adj. Compounds.† Greekish hay n. Obsolete a leguminous plant, fenugreek n.† Greekish nettle n. Obsolete Greek Nettle, Urtica pilulifera.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > fire as weapon

fire?c1225

Greek fire?c1225

Greekish fire?c1225

wildfire1297

firework1528

liquid firea1616

dragoon1626

fire chemise1728

Grecian fire1774

chemise-

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > fenugreek plant

fenugreekc1000

Greekish hayc1420

methi1832

trigonel1884

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Urticaceae (nettle and allies) > [noun]

nettleeOE

dock-nettlea1300

Greekish nettlec1450

Roman nettle1578

red nettle1611

ettle1688

urtica1706

bur-nettle1714

pill nettle1714

nettle plant1764

richweed1814

clearweed1822

sting-nettle1822

ongaonga1842

nettlewort1846

urtical1846

jinny1876

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 295 Grickisch fur is imaked of read monnes blod.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 316 Stal-fiht heo makeden. mid Grickisce fure.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 702 For wont of gresse, on trefoil lette hem byte On gooldis wilde, on letuce, greekish hey.

c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 193 Crekische nettle [MS. netche].

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxix. 162 Grekys fyre may be so called wel by cause that it was first founde by the grekys beyng at the sege byfore troye.

II. Resembling or characteristic of the Greeks or Greek style.

a. Somewhat Greek in style or character; resembling Greek persons or things; characteristic of a Greek or Greeks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective]

Grecana1400

Greekc1400

Gregion1513

Greekisha1568

Grecian1577

Grecanic1601

pan-Ionian1613

Hellenic1644

Grecanical1678

Hellenian1740

Helladian1773

Helladic1779

Greek-like1847

Panhellenic1849

pan-Ionic1855

Graecized1860

Greekesquea1878

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 65^v Id quod vulgò amat fieri, for solet fieri, is but a strange and grekish kind of writing.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxvii. 103 Such people, as though barbarous in nature, yet by traine and learning, were become greekish.

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xxi. 507 So many Greekish and Latine-like terms.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. iv. 9 The truely Greekish leuity.

1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 216 There, Learning, with his Greekish face, Grunts out some Latin ditty.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xli. 554 They condemned as undignified and Greekish any superfluous abundance in the use of words.

1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 61 (note) We have but few Greekish words in -ist so purely formed as agonist, antagonist [etc.].

b. Used for: Pagan, heathen.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [adjective]

heathenishc893

heathen971

misbelievedc1225

Barbarya1300

payenc1300

miscreantc1330

paynimc1330

uncircumcideda1382

uncircumciseda1400

gentilec1400

heathenly1415

paganismc1425

profanec1450

pagan1464

ethnical?a1475

payemec1480

miscredentc1500

heathenish1535

whorish1535

ethnic1542

ethnish1542

idolous1546

mammetrous1546

gentilish1550

idolatrous?1550

idololatrical1550

infidel1551

idolatrical1556

gentilical1573

paganical?1573

idolish1577

heatheny1580

irreligious1585

paganish1589

gentilic1603

idolaster1608

gentilitious1613

heathenous1613

idolatrizing1614

image-worshipping1621

misreligious1623

Mahounda1625

gentilizing1637

idololatrousa1641

infidelious1648

Baalitical1652

national1661

idolatric1669

paganic1676

gentilized1684

Baalish1690

idololatrica1711

infidelical1802

semi-fidel1834

Greekish1851

paganistic1853

unselect1882

goyish1888

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. vii. 67 I find at this time his religion is as good as altogether Ethnic, Greekish, what Goethe calls the Heathen form of religion.

†B. n. Obsolete.

a. The Greek language.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek

Greekishc1050

Grewc1275

Greeka1400

Hellenic1741

c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 302 Concurrentes on grecisc synt gecwedene epacte.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 63 Bred on grikisce is Larspel to us.

b. In plural. Greeks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun]

Greekishesc1175

Greesa1387

Gregion1513

Hellenism1772

Helladic1921

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Weren heo grekisce oðer romenisce oðer egiptisse oðer of hwulche londe swa heo weren þet þe lare iherden.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 402 Leteð þa Grickisca [c1300 Otho Greckes] gliden to grunde.

Derivatives

ˈGreekishly adv. after the Greek fashion, in accordance with Greek idiom.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adverb] > in a Greek fashion

Greekly1620

Hellenistically1646

Greekishly1831

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 118 Cowper calls him, more simply and Greekishly, ‘compasser of earth’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	greekish
释义	Greekishadj.n. /ˈɡriːkɪʃ/ Forms: Old English grécisc, Middle English grekisc, (Middle English gerkisc), Middle English grikisc, grickischs, Middle English grickisshe, (Middle English northern greckes, grekkis), Middle English crekische, crekkyshe, grekkisch, grekyssch, grekeshe, Middle English–1500s grekish(e, grekysh, grekysshe, (1500s greakishe), 1500s– Greekish. Etymology: In branch I, representing Old English crécisc , grécisc (= Old High German crêhhisc , crêchisc ), < Créc-as , Gréc-as (see Greek n.) + -isc , -ish suffix¹. In branch II, a new formation on Greek n. or Greek adj. + -ish suffix¹. A. adj. I. Of Greece or the Greek people. 1. Of or relating to Greece or the Greeks; Greek, Grecian. archaic. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2121 All on þis side þe grekkisch [Trin. Cambr. grickisshe, Vesp. greckes, Fairf. grekkis] see. a1400 Octouian 1837 I suede hem to the Grekyssch see. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xiii They met a grekishe shyp. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. clix. f. clxviii^v/2 He beynge there amonge the grekysshe Phylosophers. 1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Biiij^v A Greekish Carmosa, which came into Arrabia to steale Negroes. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K2^v The..famous light of all the Greekish hosts. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xvi. 760 To make wine like vnto greekish wine. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 220 All the Greekish heads, which with one voice, Call Agamemnon head and generall. View more context for this quotation 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 207 Diodorus Siculus..went on with the Greekish historie. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 309 The very Names of many of the Greekish Gods, were originally Egyptian. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 45 An ancient sort of Greekish Bricks. 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. iii. 6 Muse, that from top of thine old Greekish hill, Didst the harp-fumbling Theban younker view. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 163 A certain island-man of old..Voyaged awhile in Greekish seas. †2. With reference to the language, its words, phrases, etc.; = Greek adj. 2. Also occasionally of a person: Speaking Greek. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Greek Greekishc900 Grewc1400 Greek1548 Grecanic1601 Grecanical1678 Helladian1773 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. ii. 258 Heora discipulas wæron wel gelærde ge in Grecisc gereorde ge in Lædenisc. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Episcopus is gerkisc noma. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4307 Affter grickisshe spæche. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4304 Writenn o grickisshe boc. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. pr. i. 21 (Sk.) In the nethereste hem or bordure of thise clothes men redden..a Grekissh P, that signifyeth the lyf Actif. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) 215 The latyns vnderstode no grekysshe language. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 9^v The outward part..spreadyng like vnto the winges of Battes, called therfore by the Grekish name, πτερυγοειδεις. 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. 26 Two hundred followed of the Greekish tong. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 87 They speake all Greeke..Wilt thou, fourescore and six, be Greekish now? †3. Of or relating to the Orthodox Churches: = Greek adj. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [adjective] Greek1564 eastern1572 Greciana1600 Greekish1606 Abassian1679 Anatolian1679 Eastern Orthodox1701 orthodox1716 Anatolic1839 1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll2 Andronicus Paleologus the elder..returned againe to the Greekish Rites. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iii. iii. 30 The Greekish Church (so the Russes terme themselues). 1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Inquisition 56 The power of punishing offences in the Greekish Church, hath alwayes beene in the Prince. 4. In special collocations: † Greekish fire n. Obsolete = Greek fire n. at Greek adj. Compounds.† Greekish hay n. Obsolete a leguminous plant, fenugreek n.† Greekish nettle n. Obsolete Greek Nettle, Urtica pilulifera. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > fire as weapon fire?c1225 Greek fire?c1225 Greekish fire?c1225 wildfire1297 firework1528 liquid firea1616 dragoon1626 fire chemise1728 Grecian fire1774 chemise- the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > fenugreek plant fenugreekc1000 Greekish hayc1420 methi1832 trigonel1884 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Urticaceae (nettle and allies) > [noun] nettleeOE dock-nettlea1300 Greekish nettlec1450 Roman nettle1578 red nettle1611 ettle1688 urtica1706 bur-nettle1714 pill nettle1714 nettle plant1764 richweed1814 clearweed1822 sting-nettle1822 ongaonga1842 nettlewort1846 urtical1846 jinny1876 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 295 Grickisch fur is imaked of read monnes blod. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 316 Stal-fiht heo makeden. mid Grickisce fure. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 702 For wont of gresse, on trefoil lette hem byte On gooldis wilde, on letuce, greekish hey. c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 193 Crekische nettle [MS. netche]. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxix. 162 Grekys fyre may be so called wel by cause that it was first founde by the grekys beyng at the sege byfore troye. II. Resembling or characteristic of the Greeks or Greek style. 5. a. Somewhat Greek in style or character; resembling Greek persons or things; characteristic of a Greek or Greeks. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective] Grecana1400 Greekc1400 Gregion1513 Greekisha1568 Grecian1577 Grecanic1601 pan-Ionian1613 Hellenic1644 Grecanical1678 Hellenian1740 Helladian1773 Helladic1779 Greek-like1847 Panhellenic1849 pan-Ionic1855 Graecized1860 Greekesquea1878 a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 65^v Id quod vulgò amat fieri, for solet fieri, is but a strange and grekish kind of writing. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxvii. 103 Such people, as though barbarous in nature, yet by traine and learning, were become greekish. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xxi. 507 So many Greekish and Latine-like terms. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. iv. 9 The truely Greekish leuity. 1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 216 There, Learning, with his Greekish face, Grunts out some Latin ditty. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xli. 554 They condemned as undignified and Greekish any superfluous abundance in the use of words. 1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 61 (note) We have but few Greekish words in -ist so purely formed as agonist, antagonist [etc.]. b. Used for: Pagan, heathen. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [adjective] heathenishc893 heathen971 misbelievedc1225 Barbarya1300 payenc1300 miscreantc1330 paynimc1330 uncircumcideda1382 uncircumciseda1400 gentilec1400 heathenly1415 paganismc1425 profanec1450 pagan1464 ethnical?a1475 payemec1480 miscredentc1500 heathenish1535 whorish1535 ethnic1542 ethnish1542 idolous1546 mammetrous1546 gentilish1550 idolatrous?1550 idololatrical1550 infidel1551 idolatrical1556 gentilical1573 paganical?1573 idolish1577 heatheny1580 irreligious1585 paganish1589 gentilic1603 idolaster1608 gentilitious1613 heathenous1613 idolatrizing1614 image-worshipping1621 misreligious1623 Mahounda1625 gentilizing1637 idololatrousa1641 infidelious1648 Baalitical1652 national1661 idolatric1669 paganic1676 gentilized1684 Baalish1690 idololatrica1711 infidelical1802 semi-fidel1834 Greekish1851 paganistic1853 unselect1882 goyish1888 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. vii. 67 I find at this time his religion is as good as altogether Ethnic, Greekish, what Goethe calls the Heathen form of religion. †B. n. Obsolete. a. The Greek language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek Greekishc1050 Grewc1275 Greeka1400 Hellenic1741 c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 302 Concurrentes on grecisc synt gecwedene epacte. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 63 Bred on grikisce is Larspel to us. b. In plural. Greeks. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] Greekishesc1175 Greesa1387 Gregion1513 Hellenism1772 Helladic1921 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Weren heo grekisce oðer romenisce oðer egiptisse oðer of hwulche londe swa heo weren þet þe lare iherden. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 402 Leteð þa Grickisca [c1300 Otho Greckes] gliden to grunde. Derivatives ˈGreekishly adv. after the Greek fashion, in accordance with Greek idiom. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adverb] > in a Greek fashion Greekly1620 Hellenistically1646 Greekishly1831 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 118 Cowper calls him, more simply and Greekishly, ‘compasser of earth’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c900
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