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grec

French, noun

grec is spelled G-R-E-C (4 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written French, the 2,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grec is a French masculine noun meaning “Ancient Greek” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Grec is a different word: “Greek (resident or native of Greece)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “La langue grecque”.

What does grec mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    Greek

noun

  1. 1

    masculineAncient Greek

  2. 2

    masculineModern Greek

  3. 3

    masculineslangellipsis of sandwich grec; kebab sandwich

noun

as Grec
  1. 1

    masculineGreek (resident or native of Greece)

  2. 2

    masculineobsoleteslanga professional cheat.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Relatif à la Grèce, aux Grecs, ou à leur langue, le grec. 2. Relatif à l’Église orthodoxe d'Orient. 3. Relatif à la Grèce antique.

noun: 1. La langue grecque. 2. Grec ancien. 3. Grec moderne. 4. Sujet incompréhensible de prime abord, comme l’est la langue grecque pour ceux qui ne l’ont jamais apprise.

noun: 1. Vent méditerranéen.

noun: 1. Sandwich à base de viande, de tradition grecque ou turque. 2. Établissement servant de tels sandwichs.

noun: 1. Habitant ou originaire de la Grèce antique ou moderne. 2. Nom donné, au xixᵉ siècle, à tout tricheur professionnel.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of grec

  • grecque feminine
  • grecs masculine plural
  • grecques feminine plural
  • Grecs plural
  • Grecque feminine
  • Græc alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to grec

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is grec in French?

grec appears 26 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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