grex
English
Noun
grex (plural greges or grexes)
- (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
- (horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents.
- Synonym: gx
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See also Lithuanian gurguole (“mass, crowd”) and gurgulys (“chaos, confusion”), Old Church Slavonic гроусти (grusti, “handful”), and Ancient Greek ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I gather, collect”), whence ἀγορά (agorá). See Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ɡreks/, [ɡrɛks]
Noun
grex m (genitive gregis); third declension
Usage notes
Properly, a herd or drove of larger animals form a pecus n, a iumentum (when pulling carts), or a 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.
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | grex | gregēs |
Genitive | gregis | gregum |
Dative | gregī | gregibus |
Accusative | gregem | gregēs |
Ablative | grege | gregibus |
Vocative | grex | gregēs |
Hyponyms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
- the manager: dominus gregis
- to feed a flock (of goats): pascere gregem
- the herds are grazing: greges pascuntur (Verg. G. 3. 162)
- a theatrical company: familia, grex, caterva histrionum
- "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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