gris

gris

1. gray, grey

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾis/

gris (feminine grisa, masculine plural grisos, feminine plural grises)

1. grey

gris m (uncountable)

1. grey

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːs/, [ɡ̊ʁiːˀs]
• Rhymes: -es
• Rhymes: -iːˀs

From Old Norse gríss.

gris c (singular definite grisen, plural indefinite grise)

1. pig (mammal)

• sparegris

See grise (“to dirty, mess up”).

gris

1. imperative of grise

• “gris” in Den Danske Ordbog

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gris

1. first-person singular present indicative of grissen
2. imperative of grissen

From Old French or Old Occitan, both from Frankish gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”). Akin to Old High German grīs (“grey”) (German greis) and Dutch grijs (“grey”). More at grizzle.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁi/

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gris (feminine singular grise, masculine plural gris, feminine plural grises)

1. grey, gray
2. (colloquial) drunk, tipsy

• griser (“to go grey”)

gris m (plural gris)

1. gray

• “gris” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gries

Compare German greis.

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːs/

gris

1. (in some dialects) grey

• graag, grau (graug)

From Old Norse gríss, potentially from or related to Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”)

• grys, gryce, grice, grise

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːs/, /ɡris/

gris (plural grises)

1. A young pig, grice
2. The meat of such a pig.
3. A boar

• English: grice (dialectal)
• Scots: grice

• “grī̆s (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

From Old French gris.

gris (plural grises)

1. Alternative form of grys

• gri (Sark)

From Old French or Old Occitan, in either case from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰregʰwos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to glow, shine”).

gris m

1. grey
2. (Jersey) drunk

• (drunk): bédé-ouinne, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue, chonmé, en bouaisson, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, ivre, souîn, soûl

• grisi (“to go grey”)

From Old Norse gríss

gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser, definite plural grisene)

1. a pig

• svin

• grise
• grisunge
• sparegris

gris

1. imperative of grise

• “gris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser or grisar, definite plural grisene or grisane)

1. pig

• svin

• grisa/grise
• grisunge
• sparegris

• IPA^(key): /ɡris/

gris m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grise)

1. gray

Borrowed from Old French gris, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰregʰwos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to glow, shine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾis̺/

gris

1. grey (having a colour between white and black)

• Galician: gris
• Portuguese: gris

From Old Portuguese gris, from Old French gris, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰregʰwos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to glow, shine”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾiʃ/
• Hyphenation: gris

gris (plural gris, comparable)

1. grey (having a colour between white and black)

• cinza, cinzento

gris m (uncountable)

1. grey (the colour between white and black)

• cinza

From Occitan or Old Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris, from Proto-Germanic *grisa (“grey”), *grēwaz (“grey”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾis/
• Hyphenation: gris

gris (plural grises)

1. grey, gray

• agrisar

gris m (plural grises)

1. grey, gray

• “gris” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Old Norse gríss.

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gris

1. a pig; mammal of the genus Sus
2. a piglet; young of the pig
3. a nasty or dirty person

   Du är en riktig gris

   You are such a pig.

• svin (1,3)

• galt
• gylta
• sugga
• so
• kulting
• gullegris
• kelgris
• vildsvin
• vårtsvin
• svinstia

• gris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From English grease

gris

1. lipid (oil, fat, grease, etc)
2. flattery
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:1:

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• grisim