grece

From Middle English grece (“staircase”), from Old French grez, greis et al., plural of gre (“gree”) taken as a collective singular.

grece (plural greces)

1. (obsolete) A flight of stairs.
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Steps, stairs.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Sir said they a merueyllous aduentur / that may not be broughte vnto none ende / but by hym that passeth of bounte and of knyhthode al them of the round table / I wold sayd Galahad that ye wold lede me ther to / Gladly sayd they / and soo ledde hym tyl a caue / and he went doune vpon gresys / and cam nyghe the tombe

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• grieced

• amber grece (etymologically unrelated)

• cerge

From Old French grez, plural of gré (which is the source of gre).

• grees, grese, greez, greese, greece

• IPA^(key): /ɡreːs/

grece (plural greces)

1. A step; a part of a staircase or set of stairs.
2. A staircase; a set of stairs composing an upwards climb.
   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     ‘Gladly,’ seyde they, and so ledde hym tyll a cave; and so he wente downe uppon grecis and cam unto the tombe

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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• English: grece (obsolete)
• Scots: grece (obsolete)
• → Welsh: gris

• “grẹ̄s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 September 2018.

From Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia.

• grees, grese, greez, gres, gresse

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛːs(ə)/

grece (plural greces)

1. Fat derived from animals (including humans)
2. Processed and melted animal fat used in cooking or anointing; grease.
3. Grease used to start or help fires.
4. A greasy unguent or salve; grease as a medicament.

• English: grease
• Scots: gree (a back-formation)

• “grēs(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 September 2018.

From Old English græs.

grece

1. alternative form of gras

From grece (noun).

grece

1. alternative form of grecen

grece oblique singular, f (oblique plural greces, nominative singular grece, nominative plural greces)

1. alternative form of craisse (“fat, grease”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛ.t͡sɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛt͡sɛ
• Syllabification: gre‧ce

grece f

1. dative/locative singular of greka

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡret͡ʃe]

grece f pl

1. inflection of greacă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular