Grecian

Meanings

1. Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).

1. A native or inhabitant of Greece.
2. A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
3. A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
4. One well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek.
5. An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.

Etymology

From Latin Graecia + -an. Compare Old French grecien and Middle English grecan, grecen, greken, grekin. By surface analysis, Greco- + -ian.