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Graeco

Graeco is a Latin form of Graecus, meaning “Greek; a Greek”. It is the ablative singular masculine adjective or dative singular neuter adjective.

Found 106 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.66: … nis Verres certiores facit quid opus esset. mature veniunt, discumbitur. fit sermo inter eos, et invitatio ut Graeco more biberetur; hortatur hospes, poscunt maioribus poculis, celebratur omnium sermone laetitiaque convivium. …

Seneca the Younger, De Tranquillitate Animi 17.10: Nam, siue graeco poetae credimus, "aliquando et insanire iucundum est"; siue Platoni, "frustra poeticas fores compos sui pepulit"; siue Aristoteli, "nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit".

All forms of Graecus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.