gruta

gruta

1. third-person singular past historic of gruter

• grota

Attested in 1401 as a place name ("rua da Grota"). Perhaps borrowed from Italian grutta (Sicilian or old Neapolitan), from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾuta̝/

gruta f (plural grutas)

1. grotto, cave
2. hole or landslide caused by a flood

• groto

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

• grota

Borrowed from Italian grutta (Sicilian or old Neapolitan dialect), from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾu.ta/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾu.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: gru‧ta

gruta f (plural grutas)

1. grotto (small cave)

• See Thesaurus:caverna

• cripta
• grotesco

Borrowed from Italian (Sicilian or old Neapolitan dialect) grutta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta.

gruta f (plural grutas)

1. grotto, (small) cave

• cripta