gro

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

Shortening of gross (adjective), perhaps via grody.

gro (comparative more gro, superlative most gro)

1. (US, slang) Disgusting, unpleasant; gross.

   Wash your hair! It's totally gro.

• grody

Shortening of gross (noun).

gro

1. The cardinal number occurring after el do el (↋↋) and before gro one (101) in a duodecimal system. Written 100, decimal value 144.

• mo

Shortening of grove.

gro

1. (UK, in street addresses) Abbreviation of grove.

• Org., Rog, org, org., rog

Inherited from French gros (“big, fat, thick; important”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾo/
• Rhymes: -o

gro m (feminine gròs)

1. big

   Synonym: gran

2. fat

   Antonym: mæg

3. thick

   Synonym: (of liquids) épé

   Antonyms: étrwa, fin, léjé, mins

4. important

   Synonym: importan

5. (of weather) bad, unfavorable

From Old High German grāo, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Cognate with German grau, English grey, Dutch grijs, Icelandic grár.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʀo/,
  • Rhymes: -oː

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gro (masculine groen, neuter grot, comparative méi gro, superlative am groosten)

1. grey

From Old Norse gróa.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

gro (imperative gro, present tense gror, passive -, simple past grodde, past participle grodd, present participle groende)

1. to grow
2. to sprout, germinate

• inngrodd
• mosegrodd

• “gro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

From Old Norse gróa. Akin to English grow.

gro (present tense gror, past tense grodde, past participle grodd or grott, passive infinitive groast, present participle groande, imperative gro)

1. to grow (of plants and body hair)

   Graset gror godt i denne varmen.

   The grass is growing well in this heat.

2. to sprout, germinate
3. to heal (of cuts and sores)

   Ta plaster på såret til det gror.

   Put a band-aid on the sore until it heals.

• inngrodd
• mosegrodd

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krodu (“toad”) of origin unknown. Compare Swedish groda (with plural ending -or). Before Ivar Aasen, attested by Erik Pontoppidan in 1749, having masculine gender. Also attested by Christen Jenssøn in 1646.

gro f (definite singular groa, indefinite plural grør, definite plural grørne)

1. (Trøndelag, Hedmark, Gudbrandsdal, Helgeland, Nordmøre) a toad

   Synonym: padde

• “gro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “gro” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• Erik Pontoppidan den yngre (1749) Glossarium Norvagicum (in Danish), page 54
• Torleiv Hannaas (1915) Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 27

From Old High German grao, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Compare German grau, Dutch grauw, English gray, Icelandic grár, Swedish grå.

gro

1. gray, grey

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: gro

gro

1. vocative singular of gra

From French gros.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrôː/
• Hyphenation: gro

grȏ (Cyrillic spelling гро̑)

1. much, a lot

   Synonyms: pȕno, mnȍgo, dȍsta

• “gro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From English grow.

gro

1. To grow.

From Old Norse gróa. Cognate with English grow.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/

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gro (present gror, preterite grodde, supine grott, imperative gro)

1. (intransitive) to sprout, germinate
2. (transitive) to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed)
3. (intransitive, figurative) take hold; increase; grow

• grogrund (“hotbed, seedbed”)

• grodd (“germ, sprout”)

• växa (“grow”)

• gro in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gro in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gro in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Brythonic *grọw, from Proto-Celtic *grāwā.

• IPA^(key): /ɡroː/
• Rhymes: -oː

gro m (collective, singulative gröyn)

1. gravel, pebbles

   Synonym: graean

• grobwll m (“gravel pit”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies