gryllus

See also: Gryllus

Latin

gryllus (cricket)

Alternative forms

• grillus

Etymology

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “performer in an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature”), or onomatopoetic in origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡryːl.lus/, [ˈɡryːlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡril.lus/, [ˈɡrilːus]

Noun

grȳllus m (genitive grȳllī); second declension

1. cricket, grasshopper
2. (art) a comic figure

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	grȳllus	grȳllī
Genitive	grȳllī	grȳllōrum
Dative	grȳllō	grȳllīs
Accusative	grȳllum	grȳllōs
Ablative	grȳllō	grȳllīs
Vocative	grȳlle	grȳllī

Derived terms

• gryllō

Descendants

• Catalan: grill
• Esperanto: grilo
• French: grillon
• Galician: grilo
• Ido: grilio
• Italian: grillo
• Maltese: grillu

• Occitan: grilh
• Portuguese: grilo
• Romanian: greier
• Sicilian: griddu, ariddu
• Spanish: grillo
• Venetian: griło, grijo, grigio, grei

References

• “gryllus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gryllus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gryllus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gryllus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray