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Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

ng of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

s styles of wrestling differ in their definition of a fall and in the governing rules. In Greco-Roman wrestling, tripping and taking hold of the legs are forbidden, and a fall is gained (that is, the bout is won), by the contestant who pins both his opponent's shoulders to the ground. In catch-as-catch-can wrestling, a…