grito

See also: gritó

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish gritobor.

English grito

Borrowed from Spanish grito.

Noun

grito (plural gritos)

1. A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.
   • 2016 June 1, Randal Sheppard, A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968‎^[1], Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 140:

     During the post-election turmoil, an estimated fifteen thousand people gathered at the Angel of Independence on Independence Day 1988 for a grito organized by the PAN that the party described as an event “that signifies the authentic freedom of Mexico” and that focused on repudiating electoral fraud.

   • 2021 December 13, Maira Garcia, “Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak”, in The New York Times‎^[2], retrieved 13 December 2021:

     The night doesn’t begin to end until someone starts pouring tequila, plays this song [“Por Tu Maldito Amor”], and belts out a grito in their best Chente voice — operatic and soaring with a tinge of melancholy.

See also

• yahoo
• yeehaw

Galician

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾito/ [ˈɡɾi.t̪ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈɡɾito/ [ˈɡɾi.t̪ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈħɾito/ [ˈħɾi.t̪ʊ]

• Rhymes: -ito
• Hyphenation: gri‧to

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese grito (independently attested in both corpora; in Galician since circa 1300), back-formation from gritar.

Noun

grito m (plural gritos)

1. cry; shout; scream

   Synonym: berro

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 92:

     Et uĩjnan dando tã grãdes vozes et tã grandes gritos et fazendo tã grãdes roydos, que semellaua que todo o mũdo y vĩjna

     And they were uttering so large voices and so large shouts and making so large noises that it seemed that all the world were coming there

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “grito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “grito”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grito”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “grito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “grito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Further reading

• “grito”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “grito”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Etymology 2

Verb

grito

1. first-person singular present indicative of gritar

Ladino

Noun

grito m

1. shout

Related terms

• gritar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾi.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾi.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾi.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾi.tu/

• Rhymes: -itu
• Hyphenation: gri‧to

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese grito, from gritar, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, either from Latin quirītō or Frankish *krītan.

Noun

grito m (plural gritos)

1. cry; shout; scream

   Synonyms: berro, clamor

   Antonym: sussurro

2. (uncountable) screaming; shouting; din

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gritaria

   Antonyms: silêncio, calma

Derived terms

• grito de guerra

Related terms

• grita
• gritadeira
• gritador
• gritalhão
• gritante
• gritar
• gritaria

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

grito

1. first-person singular present indicative of gritar

Further reading

• “grito”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “grito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾito/ [ˈɡɾi.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: gri‧to

Etymology 1

Deverbal from gritar.

Noun

grito m (plural gritos)

1. a cry, a yell, a scream, a growl

Derived terms

• a grito herido
• a grito limpio
• a grito pelado
• a gritos
• a voz en grito
• alzar el grito
• en un grito
• levantar el grito
• poner el grito en el cielo
• reina del grito
• último grito

Descendants

• → English: grito

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

grito

1. first-person singular present indicative of gritar

Further reading

• “grito”, 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