Middle French

Proper noun

Grece f

1. Greece

Old French

Proper noun

Grece f ‎(nominative singular Grece)

1. (Ancient) Greece

Descendants

• English: Greece (borrowed)
• French: Grèce
• Norman: Grêce

English

Noun

grece ‎(plural greces)

1. (obsolete) A flight of stairs.
2. (obsolete, in the plural) Steps, stairs.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xviij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Sir said they a merueyllous aduentur / that may not be broughte vnto none ende / but by hym that passeth of bounte and of knyhthode al them of the round table / I wold sayd Galahad that ye wold lede me ther to / Gladly sayd they / and soo ledde hym tyl a caue / and he went doune vpon gresys / and cam nyghe the tombe

Old French

Alternative forms

• graise
• graisse
• grese
• gresse

Noun

grece f ‎(oblique plural greces, nominative singular grece, nominative plural greces)

1. fat (fatty material)
2. grease

Descendants

• English: grease (borrowed)