Greco

¹

[ grek-oh; Spanish, Italian gre-kaw ]

noun

1. Jo·sé [hoh-, zey, haw-, se], 1918–2001, U.S. dancer and choreographer, born in Italy.
2. El [el]. El Greco.

Greco-

²

1. a combining form representing Greek in compound words:

   Greco-Roman.

Greco

¹

/ ˈɡrɛkəʊ /

noun

1. See El Greco
   El. See El Greco

Greco-

²

/ ˈɡrɛkəʊ; ˈɡriːkəʊ /

combining_form

1. See Graeco-
   a variant (esp US) of Graeco-

Word History and Origins

Origin of Greco¹

< Latin Graec ( us ) Greek + -o-

Example Sentences

Greco and Pugno described all this February 3 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

From Science News For Students

Greco and Trento coauthor Nicola Pugno filmed how spiders hunt from such snarls.

From Science News For Students

That makes sense, Greco concluded, because these strands get tugged and jounced a lot by struggling prey.

From Science News

Greco had spent 16 years at Motorola, where he helped run a smartphone production facility in Plantation.

From Fortune

At Greco’s suggestion, Magic Leap moved into the old Motorola building.

From Fortune

It started in the south, Chan says, then spread to Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran, as well as to the Greco-Roman world.

From The Daily Beast

So why let ‘300’ get by with mangling the 2,500-year-old Greco-Persian War?

From The Daily Beast

This era, artistically speaking, harped on Greco-Roman mythology, with masculinity steeped in classical heroism.

From The Daily Beast

Sartre, Beauvoir, Vian and Greco were holding court in the cafes and nightclubs of Saint German.

From The Daily Beast

Several women, including Melissa McCarthy and Milla Jovovich, have shown up wearing Greco-Roman gowns.

From The Daily Beast

The Greco plot, though probably few believed that Mazzini was an accomplice, made it difficult for the King to treat with him.

From Project Gutenberg

In fact, at the feast that evening, I found myself sitting next to El Greco.

From Project Gutenberg

In pajamas and bathrobe, I stalked down the stairs and into the room that had once been a kitchen and now was Greco's laboratory.

From Project Gutenberg

I froze, stiff; wanting to make sure they understood (a) that I wasn't Greco and (b) that I didn't have a gun.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the year of the brief Greco-Turkish war, which revived old divisions of opinion at home.

From Project Gutenberg