grelo

Galician

Grelos at the marketplace

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”),^[1] but compare grilo.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo̝/
• (eastern) 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

   Synonym: cimo

   • 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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grelo”, 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), “grelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “grelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

1. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “grillo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos

Further reading

• grelo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

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”)

 

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.lu/

• Rhymes: -elu
• 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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo/ [ˈɡɾe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: gre‧lo

Noun

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. turnip greens

See also

• nabo

Further reading

• “grelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014