grelo

Galician
Grelos at the marketplace

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”), although the semantic evolution from insect to shoot is not trivial.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾelo̝/
  • (eastern) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾilo̝/

Noun

grelo m (plural grelos)

  1. shoot, sprout.
  2. (cooking, in the plural) pre-flowering Brassica rapa (turnip) greens, usually consumed in caldo or as a side dish.
    • 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
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. grillo.

Further reading

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French grêle.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡre.lo/

Noun

grelo (plural greli)

  1. (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

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

Pronunciation

Noun

grelo m (plural grelos)

  1. sprout (new growth on a plant)
  2. (cooking, in the plural) turnip greens
  3. (vulgar, slang) clitoris, clit or clitty

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾelo/
  • Hyphenation: gre‧lo

Noun

grelo m (plural grelos)

  1. turnip greens

See also
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