grekiske

Grekiske is an adjective used in several Scandinavian languages, including Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, to denote relation to Greece or to the Greek language. It is employed to describe things connected with Greece, its people, culture, or language, and is typically used with nouns such as grekiske kultur (Greek culture) or grekiske sprog/language. The form inflects to agree with the noun it modifies and can be used in descriptive or factual contexts.

In linguistic usage, grekiske can refer to the Greek language. Greek belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family and has a documented history spanning more than two millennia. The ancient stage is known as Ancient Greek, which gave rise to Koine Greek during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and to Medieval and Modern Greek in later centuries. Modern Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and is written in the Greek alphabet, a script with origins in the 8th century BCE that remains in use today. The Greek alphabet has influenced many writing systems and contributed a large number of terms to scientific, literary, and scholarly vocabularies in various languages.

Etymology: grekiske derives from the ethnonym Graecus in Latin, related to the ancient Greek people, and has cognates in other European languages used to denote Greek matters.