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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo̝/
• 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

• grelar

References

• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “grelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Further reading

• grelo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

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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”)

 

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.lu/
• Hyphenation: gre‧lo

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

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo/ [ˈɡɾe.lo]
• Hyphenation: gre‧lo

Noun

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. turnip greens

See also

• nabo