Crecas
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō (“Greeks”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkreː.kɑs/
Proper noun
Crēcas m pl
- the Greeks
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Þā hē ārīsende wæs, þā ġefēlde hē his līchaman healfne dǣl mid þǣre ādle ġeslæġen bēon þe Crēcas nemnaþ paralysis and wē cweðaþ lyftādl.
- As he was getting up, he felt half his body being struck with the affliction that the Greeks call paralysis and we call "air sickness."
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Greece
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
- On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren on Crēcum.
- At that time, Alexander was born in Greece.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
- Þȳ ilcan ġēare Claudius oferwann Gotan and hīe ādrāf ūt of Crēcum.
- The same year, Claudius defeated the Goths and drove them out of Greece.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
- Binnan fīf and twēntiġ ġēara Philippus ġeēode ealle þā cynerīċu þe on Crēcum wǣron.
- Within twenty-five years, Phillip conquered all the kingdoms in Greece.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
- Æfter þām Fulvius sē consul fōr mid fierde on Crēcas, tō þām beorge þe man Olympus hǣtt.
- After that, consul Fulvius went with an army to Greece, to the mountain that is called Olympus.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: Greke
- English: Greek
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