Etymology

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Today it means: Animal fat in a melted or soft state. Full definition →

Middle English grece ← Anglo-Norman grece ← Vulgar Latin *crassia
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  1. Latincrassus
  2. Vulgar Latin*crassia
  3. Anglo-Normangrece
  4. Middle Englishgrece
  5. English todaygrease

From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *crassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishgrece all →

Greecegrece

Latincrassus all →

crassCrassusgrampuscrassamentumcreesh

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