The story
- Old French · derived fromgrez
- Middle English · inherited fromgrece“staircase”
- English todaygrece
From Middle English grece (“staircase”), from Old French grez, greis et al., plural of gre (“gree”) taken as a collective singular.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishgrece all →
Greecegrease
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.