grifo
See also: Grifo
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Spanish grifa.
Noun
[edit]grifo (uncountable)
- (slang) Cannabis.
- 1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484:
- […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]
- 2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657:
- The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.
Anagrams
[edit]Chavacano
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[edit]grifo
Esperanto
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[edit]Common Romance.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grifo (accusative singular grifon, plural grifoj, accusative plural grifojn)
Italian
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[edit]Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grifo m (plural grifi)
Related terms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]grīfo m
Declension
[edit]| case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | grīfo | grīfon, grīfun |
| accusative | grīfon, grīfun | grīfon, grīfun |
| genitive | grīfen, grīfin | grīfōno |
| dative | grīfen, grīfin | grīfōm, grīfōn |
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]grīfo
- alternative form of grīfu
Portuguese
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Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese grifo, from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ifu
- Hyphenation: gri‧fo
Noun
[edit]grifo m (plural grifos)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]grifo
Further reading
[edit]- “grifo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “grifo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
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Etymology
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Inherited from Old Spanish grifo, a learned borrowing from Late Latin grȳphus (“griffin”), from Latin grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).
Noun sense 1 (“faucet”) comes from the ornamentations which fountain faucets commonly beared, which often featured griffin heads. Compare Aragonese jeta (literally “snout”), Catalan aixeta, English cock, French robinet (literally “little sheep”), and German Hahn (literally “rooster”) for similar semantic developments.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grifo m (plural grifos)
- tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
- (Peru) petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station
- Synonyms: gasolinera, estación de servicio, bencinera (Chile), gasolinería (Mexico), bomba (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela)
- griffin
- (heraldry) griffin
Derived terms
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]grifo (feminine grifa, masculine plural grifos, feminine plural grifas)
- (colloquial) intoxicated (by alcohol, cannabis)
References
[edit]- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “grifo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 213
Further reading
[edit]- “grifo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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