grosso
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See also: Grosso
Galician
Adjective
grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossos, feminine plural grossas)
- reintegrationist spelling of groso
References
- “grosso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin grossus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossi, feminine plural grosse, superlative grossissimo, diminutive grossétto, augmentative grossóne)
Derived terms
Noun
grosso m (plural grossi)
- the main part of something
- (numismatics) groschen
Further reading
- grosso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
grosso on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡros.soː/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡros.so/,
Adjective
grossō
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese grosso, from Latin grossus, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷres-.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: gros‧so
Adjective
grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossos, feminine plural grossas, comparable, comparative mais grosso, superlative o mais grosso or grossíssimo, metaphonic)
- dense; thick (relatively great in extent from one surface to another)
- viscous; thick (having consistency between solid and liquid)
- crude; unrefined (of low quality)
- (of a person) rude; uncouth; uncivil (without manners)
- (of texture) rough (not plain; with friction)
- (of sound) deep (low in pitch)
- obscene; distasteful; vulgar (offensive to morality)
- (slang) aboundant (in high quantity)
Descendants
Further reading
- “grôsso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “grosso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “grosso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024