Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord and leader of one of the most powerful criminal organizations ever assembled. During the height of his power in the 1980âs, he controlled a vast empire of drugs and murder that covered the globe.
The surname Griego came from the Italian personal name Greca, which is derived from the Latin word graecus, which means greek. Alternatively, the surname is of a nickname origin that was given to one who came from Greece.
So over time, griego 's apparent variant, gringo, came to refer to a foreign language and to foreigners in general. The first known written English use of the word was in 1849 by an explorer.ringo. Etymology: The origin of the Spanish word is uncertain, although it is likely to have come from griego, the word for Greek.. As in English, in Spanish it has long been common to refer to an unintelligible language as Greek (It's Greek to me, or  Habla en griego ).