graeco-

comb. form (also Greco-) Greek; Greek and.
Etymology: L Graecus GREEK

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— see greco-

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Chiefly Brit.

var. of Greco-.

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Graeco- or (esp N American) Greco- /grē-kō- or grek-ō-/ combining form

1. Denoting: Greek

2. Greece

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Main Entry: ↑Graecize

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Graeco- UK [ɡriːkəʊ] UK [ɡrekəʊ] US [ɡrikoʊ] US [ɡrekoʊ] prefix

Greek, or ancient Greek used with some adjectives and nouns

Graeco-Roman statues

Thesaurus: prefixes_hyponym antiquity and ancient times_hyponym

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Graeco-,

combining form. a variant form of Greco- (Cf. ↑Greco-).

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comb. form chiefly Brit. variant spelling of Greco-

Origin:

from Latin Graecus (see Greek)

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Graeco- 7 (NAmE usually Greco-) [ˈɡriːkəʊ‑] [ˈɡriːkoʊ‑] combining form

(in adjectives) Greek

See also: ↑Greco-  

Word Origin:

[Graeco-] from Latin Graecus, 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.