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4-letter words (1 found)

GREX,

3-letter words (4 found)

ERG,GER,REG,REX,

2-letter words (3 found)

ER,EX,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 9 words from grex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of grex

grex rgex gerx egrx regx ergx grxe rgxe gxre xgre rxge xrge gexr egxr gxer xger exgr xegr rexg erxg rxeg xreg exrg xerg

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Definitions and meaning of grex

grex

Etymology

Latin grex (flock).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɛks/

Noun

grex (plural greges or grexes)

  1. (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
  2. (horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents, in particular for orchids.
    Synonym: gx

Derived terms

  • grex name

Further reading

  • Grex (horticulture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *greks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (to assemble, gather together). Indo-European cognates include Lithuanian gurguole (mass, crowd) and gurgulys (chaos, confusion), Old Church Slavonic гръсть (grŭstĭ, handful), as well as other words listed at *h₂ger-.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ɡreks/, [ɡrɛks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡreks/, [ɡrɛks]

Noun

grex m (genitive gregis); third declension

  1. (zoology) a group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.
  2. (figurative) a similar group of other things
    Synonyms: cumulus, acervus, massa, mōlēs, multitūdō
  3. a group of people: a crowd, a clique, a company, a band, a troop, etc.
    Synonyms: multitūdō, turba
  4. (sports) a team of charioteers.
  5. (theater) a troupe of actors.

Usage notes

Properly, a herd or drove of larger animals form a pecus n, a iumentum (when pulling carts), or an armenta (when pulling a plow), while smaller animals—especially domesticated pecudēs—form a grex. Its use for people is not necessarily pejorative in the way pecus is.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Hyponyms

  • pecus

Derived terms

  • gregālis
  • gregārius
  • gregātim

Related terms

  • gregō

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: gregge
      • Middle French: grege
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Gascon: grey
    • Old Occitan: grec, grei
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Leonese: gree
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: grei
      • Portuguese: grei
      • Galician: grei, grea
    • Old Spanish: grey
      • Spanish: grey
  • Borrowings:
    • English: grex
    • ? Old Irish: graigh
    • Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
      • Albanian: grigjë
    • ? Proto-Brythonic: [Term?]
      • Welsh: gre

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “grĕx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 268

Further reading

  • grex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • grex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • grex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • "Pecus; Jumentum; Armentum; Grex" in H.H. Arnold's translation of Ludwig von Döderlein's Hand-Book of Latin Synonymes (1841), pp. 158–9.

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