grelo
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Galician
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”), but compare grilo.
Pronunciation
Noun
grelo m (plural grelos)
- shoot, sprout
- (cooking, in the plural) pre-flowering Brassica rapa (turnip) greens, usually consumed in caldo or as a side dish
- Synonym: cimo
- 1976, Maruxa Barrio Val, Textos pra o ensino do galego, A Coruña: Ed. do Rueiro., →ISBN:
- A trinidade do galego: nabo, nabiza e grelo
- The trinity of the Galicians: turnip, turnip greens and grelos
Derived terms
References
- “grelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “grelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “grelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “grillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
grelo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia gl
Ido
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
grelo (plural greli)
- (weather) hail, hail storm
Derived terms
- flechogrelo (“a shower of arrows”)
- grelagar (“to devastate, ravage (someone) by hail”)
- grelar (“to hail”)
- grelas (“it hails”)
- greletar (“to sleet”)
- greleto (“sleet”)
- grelfrapar (“to devastate, ravage (someone) by hail”)
- greluno (“a hailstone”)
- stonogrelo (“a hail of stones”)
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gre‧lo
Noun
grelo m (plural grelos)
- sprout (new growth on a plant)
- (cooking, in the plural) turnip greens
- (vulgar, slang) clitoris, clit or clitty
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
grelo m (plural grelos)
See also
Further reading
- “grelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014