See gredy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gredyly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gredynesse"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "greedy"
},
"expansion": "English: greedy\nSranan Tongo: gridi",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "English: greedy\nSranan Tongo: gridi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "gredy",
"3": "gredie"
},
"expansion": "Scots: gredy, gredie",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Scots: gredy, gredie"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Inherited"
},
"expansion": "Inherited",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang-ang",
"3": "grēdiġ",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Anglian Old English grēdiġ",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang-ang",
"3": "grēdiġ"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Anglian Old English grēdiġ",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*grādag"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *grādag",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*grēdagaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (West Saxon grǣdiġ), from Proto-West Germanic *grādag, from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gredier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "comparative",
"6": "gredier",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{3}}}",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "gredy (comparative gredier)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "gredier"
},
"expansion": "gredy (comparative gredier)",
"name": "enm-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 20 19 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 17 20 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 17 19 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "60 13 14 14",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Money",
"orig": "enm:Money",
"parents": [
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Envious, greedy; lusting after wealth or lucre; displaying avarice or greed."
],
"id": "en-gredy-enm-adj-br1xvJj7",
"links": [
[
"greedy",
"greedy"
],
[
"wealth",
"wealth"
],
[
"lucre",
"lucre"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Voracious, insatiable, tending to overeat or excessively eat (used of people and beasts)"
],
"id": "en-gredy-enm-adj-v3g3d3qg",
"links": [
[
"insatiable",
"insatiable"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Overexcited; excessively eager or willing; displaying impulsiveness."
],
"id": "en-gredy-enm-adj--Ka1oczt"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "10 4 6 80",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Nutrition",
"orig": "enm:Nutrition",
"parents": [
"Health",
"Body",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Starving, hungry; requiring or necessitating nutrition."
],
"id": "en-gredy-enm-adj-LcUheoUb",
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Starving, hungry; requiring or necessitating nutrition."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡreːdiː/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gredi"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grædie"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
],
"word": "grediȝ"
}
],
"word": "gredy"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English adjectives",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from Anglian Old English",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Anglian Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Money",
"enm:Nutrition"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "gredyly"
},
{
"word": "gredynesse"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "greedy"
},
"expansion": "English: greedy\nSranan Tongo: gridi",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "English: greedy\nSranan Tongo: gridi"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "gredy",
"3": "gredie"
},
"expansion": "Scots: gredy, gredie",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Scots: gredy, gredie"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "Inherited"
},
"expansion": "Inherited",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang-ang",
"3": "grēdiġ",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Anglian Old English grēdiġ",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang-ang",
"3": "grēdiġ"
},
"expansion": "Inherited from Anglian Old English grēdiġ",
"name": "inh+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*grādag"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *grādag",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*grēdagaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Inherited from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (West Saxon grǣdiġ), from Proto-West Germanic *grādag, from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gredier",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "comparative",
"6": "gredier",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{3}}}",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "gredy (comparative gredier)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "gredier"
},
"expansion": "gredy (comparative gredier)",
"name": "enm-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Envious, greedy; lusting after wealth or lucre; displaying avarice or greed."
],
"links": [
[
"greedy",
"greedy"
],
[
"wealth",
"wealth"
],
[
"lucre",
"lucre"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Voracious, insatiable, tending to overeat or excessively eat (used of people and beasts)"
],
"links": [
[
"insatiable",
"insatiable"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Overexcited; excessively eager or willing; displaying impulsiveness."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Starving, hungry; requiring or necessitating nutrition."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Starving, hungry; requiring or necessitating nutrition."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡreːdiː/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "gredi"
},
{
"word": "grædie"
},
{
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
],
"word": "grediȝ"
}
],
"word": "gredy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for gredy meaning in Middle English (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.