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grecise

grecise is the alternative spelling of Grecize.

Meaning of Grecize

Verb

Grecize (third-person singular simple present Grecizes, present participle Grecizing, simple past and past participle Grecized)

  1. (transitive) To render Grecian, or cause (a word or phrase in another language) to take a Greek form; to Grecianize; to Hellenize.
    • The name is grecized.
  2. (transitive) To translate into Greek.
  3. (intransitive) To conform to the Greek custom, especially in speech.

Verb capitalized: Grecise

Grecise (third-person singular simple present Grecises, present participle Grecising, simple past and past participle Grecised)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Grecize.

Forms of grecise

third-person singular presentgrecises
present participlegrecising
past participlegrecised
pastgrecised
third-person singular presentGrecises
present participleGrecising
past participleGrecised
pastGrecised

Questions about grecise

What is grecise the alternative spelling of?
Grecise is the alternative spelling of Grecize.
What part of speech is grecise?
Grecise is a verb.
What is the past tense of grecise?
The past tense of grecise is grecised.

Words near grecise in the dictionary

  1. Grecianship
  2. grecicize
  3. grecicized
  4. grecicizes
  5. grecicizing
  6. grecise
  7. Grecised
  8. Grecises
  9. Grecising
  10. Grecism
  11. grecisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grecise (page history and authors); Grecise (page history and authors); Grecize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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