Greece

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From Middle English Grece, from Old French Grece, from Latin Graecia, from Ancient Greek Γραικός(Graikós); a character in Greek mythology, the son of Thessalos, the king of Phthia. Replaced Old English Crēca land, also from the same Latin source.


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Greece

c. 1300, from Latin Graecia; named for its inhabitants; see Greek. Earlier in English was Greklond (c. 1200). The Turkish name for the country, via Persian, is Yunanistan, literally "Land of the Ionians." Ionia also yielded the name for the country in Arabic and Hindi (Yunan).