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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish crieta, from Vulgar Latin *crepta, from Latin crepita, passive participle of crepō (“to crack”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɾjeta/
- Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: grie‧ta
Noun
grieta f (plural grietas)
- crack, chink, crevice
1951 [1802], Novalis, chapter IX, in Germán Bleiberg, transl., Enrique de Ofterdingen (Colección Austral; 1008), Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe, translation of Heinrich von Ofterdingen, page 143:[…] en la estancia contigua, un rayo luminoso del mundo superior se filtra a través de una grieta de la roca […].- In the adjacent room, a luminous ray from the world above is filtered through a crack of the stone.
- chap (cleft in the skin)
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