English

Noun

grex ‎(plural greges)

1. A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
2. A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents.

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

1. (of animals) flock, herd, drove, swarm
2. (of people) company, band, troop, crowd, clique
3. bundle of rods

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• gregālis
• gregārius
• gregātim

Related terms

• gregō

Descendants

• Albanian: grigjë
• English: aggregate, egregious, gregarious
• French: grégaire
• Italian: gregge
• Portuguese: grei, grege
• Spanish: grey

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “grex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)