grottesco
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From grotta (“cave”) + -esco (relational suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
grottesco (feminine grottesca, masculine plural grotteschi, feminine plural grottesche)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: grotesc
- → Middle French: grotesque
- → Piedmontese: grotesch
- → Portuguese: grotesco
- → Spanish: grotesco
Further reading[edit]
- grottesco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana