English Dictionary

greek it

動詞

別表記 廃用

(obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Greek it.

日本語の意味

これは『greek it』が、『Greek it』の（廃止された）大文字・小文字の代替形であることを示す表記の変形です。つまり、意味そのものではなく、文字の大文字・小文字の使い分けに関する活用形となります。

During restoration, the typographer decided to greek it to preserve the manuscript's original letter-case conventions.

修復の際、製版技師は写本の元の大文字・小文字の慣習を守るために、それをギリシャ文字の代替的な字形で表記することにした。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Greek it.

Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. As to dead languages, replied the ſchoolmafter, I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than— Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence.

greeks it （ present singular third-person ）

greeking it （ participle present ）

greeked it （ participle past ）

greeked it （ past ）