gromo

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

14th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin grumus. Compare Portuguese gomo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾomo̝/

Noun

gromo m (plural gromos)

  1. bud
    • circa 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 30:
      Et nõ catou al senõ aquel fuste que era seco et logo se tornou verde, et meteu gromos cõ follas de seu froyto de azeytunas
      And he saw nothing but that wooden log that was dry and then it turned green, and it put [?] buds with leaves of its fruit of olives
    Synonyms: bertón, botón, brote, grelo, rebento
  2. sprout, shoot
    Synonym: escote

Derived terms

References

  • gromo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • gromo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • gromo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • gromo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • gromo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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