gris
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris m (plural grises)
Basque
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris (comparative grisago, superlative grisen, excessive grisegi)
Declension
[edit]indefinite | singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
absolutive | gris | grisa | grisak | |
ergative | grisek | grisak | grisek | |
dative | grisi | grisari | grisei | |
genitive | grisen | grisaren | grisen | |
comitative | grisekin | grisarekin | grisekin | |
causative | grisengatik | grisarengatik | grisengatik | |
benefactive | grisentzat | grisarentzat | grisentzat | |
instrumental | grisez | grisaz | grisez | |
inessive | anim. | grisengan | grisarengan | grisengan |
inanim. | grisetan | grisean | grisetan | |
locative | anim. | — | — | — |
inanim. | grisetako | griseko | grisetako | |
allative | anim. | grisengana | grisarengana | grisengana |
inanim. | grisetara | grisera | grisetara | |
terminative | anim. | grisenganaino | grisarenganaino | grisenganaino |
inanim. | grisetaraino | griseraino | grisetaraino | |
directive | anim. | grisenganantz | grisarenganantz | grisenganantz |
inanim. | grisetarantz | griserantz | grisetarantz | |
destinative | anim. | grisenganako | grisarenganako | grisenganako |
inanim. | grisetarako | griserako | grisetarako | |
ablative | anim. | grisengandik | grisarengandik | grisengandik |
inanim. | grisetatik | grisetik | grisetatik | |
partitive | grisik | — | — | |
prolative | gristzat | — | — |
Noun
[edit]gris inan
Declension
[edit]indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | gris | grisa | grisak |
ergative | grisek | grisak | grisek |
dative | grisi | grisari | grisei |
genitive | grisen | grisaren | grisen |
comitative | grisekin | grisarekin | grisekin |
causative | grisengatik | grisarengatik | grisengatik |
benefactive | grisentzat | grisarentzat | grisentzat |
instrumental | grisez | grisaz | grisez |
inessive | grisetan | grisean | grisetan |
locative | grisetako | griseko | grisetako |
allative | grisetara | grisera | grisetara |
terminative | grisetaraino | griseraino | grisetaraino |
directive | grisetarantz | griserantz | grisetarantz |
destinative | grisetarako | griserako | grisetarako |
ablative | grisetatik | grisetik | grisetatik |
partitive | grisik | — | — |
prolative | gristzat | — | — |
See also
[edit]zuri | gris | beltz |
gorri | laranja; marroi | hori |
berde | ||
oztin | urdin | |
ubel | more | arrosa |
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris (feminine grisa, masculine plural grisos, feminine plural grises)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris m (plural grisos)
See also
[edit]blanc | gris | negre |
roig, vermell; carmesí | taronja; marró | groc; crema |
verd llima | verd | |
cian; xarxet | atzur | blau |
violat; indi | magenta; lila, porpra | rosa |
Further reading
[edit]- “gris” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gris”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “gris” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gris” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris c (singular definite grisen, plural indefinite grise)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “gris” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gris
- imperative of grise
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]gris
- inflection of grissen:
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, both from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”). Akin to Old High German grīs (“grey”) (German greis) and Dutch grijs (“grey”). More at grizzle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris (feminine grise, masculine plural gris, feminine plural grises)
- grey / gray
- (colloquial) drunk, tipsy
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis[1]:
- Si je n’avais pas été gris, je n’aurais certes pas étalé mes papiers. Ils ont dû ennuyer Billard.
- If I hadn't been drunk, I certainly wouldn't have displayed my papers. They must have bored Billard.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris m (plural gris)
Descendants
[edit]- → Greek: γκρι (gkri)
- Louisiana Creole: gri
- Mauritian Creole: gri
- → Portuguese: griso
- → Romanian: gri
- Seychellois Creole: gri
- → Turkish: gri
See also
[edit]blanc | gris | noir |
rouge; cramoisi, carmin | orange; brun, marron | jaune; crème |
lime | vert | menthe |
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard | azur, bleu ciel | bleu |
violet, lilas; indigo | magenta; pourpre | rose |
Further reading
[edit]- “gris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gris (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French gris, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -is
Adjective
[edit]gris
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gris”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gris”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gris”, 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), “gris”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gris”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
German Low German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris
See also
[edit]Lombard
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris.
Adjective
[edit]gris m (feminine grisa)
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Old Norse gríss, potentially from or related to Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris (plural grises)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “grī̆s, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris (plural grises)
- Alternative form of grys
Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, in either case from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰregʰwos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to glow, shine”).
Adjective
[edit]gris m
- grey / gray
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[2], page 534:
- Rouage ser, gris matin, ch'est la jouaie du pélerin.
- A red evening and a grey morning are the pilgrim's joy.
- (Jersey) drunk
- Synonyms: bédé-ouinne, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue, chonmé, en bouaisson, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, ivre, souîn, soûl
Derived terms
[edit]- grisi (“to go grey”)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser, definite plural grisene)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]gris
- imperative of grise
References
[edit]- “gris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Norse gríss.
Noun
[edit]gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser or grisar, definite plural grisene or grisane)
Inflection
[edit]Historical inflection of gris
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. |
Derived terms
[edit]Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grise)
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French gris, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]branco, blanco, alvo | gris | negro, preto |
vermelho | castanho | amarelo |
verde | ||
azur | ||
cardẽo | rosa |
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gris, from Old French gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
Adjective
[edit]gris (invariable)
- grey / gray (having a colour between white and black)
- Synonyms: cinza, cinzento, acinzentado
Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris m (uncountable)
See also
[edit]branco, alvo, cândido | cinza, gris, cinzento |
preto, negro, atro |
vermelho, encarnado, rubro, salmão; carmim |
laranja, cor de laranja; castanho, marrom |
amarelo, lúteo; creme, ocre |
verde-limão | verde | verde-água; verde-menta |
ciano, turquesa; azul-petróleo |
azul-celeste | azul, índigo, anil |
violeta, lilás |
magenta; roxo, púrpura | rosa, cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque |
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris n (uncountable)
- Alternative form of griș
Declension
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Occitan or Old Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris m or f (masculine and feminine plural grises)
- grey / gray
- materia gris ― grey matter
- zona gris ― grey area
- boring, dull
- Ella lleva una vida gris.
- She has a dull life.
- overcast, cloudy
- Hay poca luz porque el día está gris.
- There's little light because the day is overcast.
- morally ambiguous
- Juan de Galicia es un personaje muy gris.
- Juan de Galicia is a very morally ambiguous character.
- 1912 April 17, “Aproposito de campanas”, in Salvador Canals, editor, Mundo gráfico: Revista popular ilustrada[3], number 25, page 4:
- ¿qué mucho que abunden tanto las desengañadas, ese tipo de mujer moralmente gris, ni mala ni buena, ociosa é inútil desde el punto de vista social, que da á la Iglesia la beata; á una intelectualidad exacerbada, la feminista, y á la revolución, las fieras que ponen las notas de mayor violencia en las convulsiones populares?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1977, La otra opinión: editoriales de El Siglo, Volume 2, Editorial Revista Colombiana, page 164:
- Hay zonas de la administración en que por su índole, porque su campo está demasiado próximo a la delincuencia, la corrupción se presenta al mismo tiempo por abajo y por arriba y se crea esa moral gris de la que hemos hablado, en donde lo ilícito es lo "natural" y sólo se distingue por grados que generalmente van acuerdo con la 164.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015, Vicente Palermo, La alegría y la pasión: Relatos brasileños y argentinos en perspectiva comparada, Katz, page 133:
- Aunque el jeitinho es siempre un instrumento que posibilita la quiebra de las reglas (de modo particularista), el problema es que ante asimetrias sociales y leyes que no se pueden cambiar, el jeitinho es una adaptación, equivale a una zona moral gris entre lo “correcto” y lo “incorrecto”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2020, Serna Dimas Adrián, Poética de la tierra caliente: Hecho colonial, mitología nacional y violencia en la cuenca media del río Magdalena, Colombia, Editorial Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, page 388:
- León es un personaje gris: es un defensor de que la mina es sagrada porque es del Gobierno, es un estricto persecutor de quienes pretenden asaltarla, pero igualmente.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2021, Silvia Magro Vela, Belén Puebla Martínez, Nuria Navarro Sierra, editors, Ficcionando sinergias. Los profesionales se buscan en la ficción televisiva española, Editorial Dykinson, page 94:
- Asi, junto al heroico abogado defensor del inocente y al artero defensor del culpable, ha aparecido el personaje gris de moral autonoma —cuestionable, si se quiere, pero real— que puede llegar a convertirse en protagonista.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2022, César Augusto Pires Torres, Vivencias cantadas en prosas y relatos, Editorial Autores de Argentina, page 116:
- Ese es el que bebe de tu vaso el agua cristalina que con su sentir lo convierte en turbia y el personaje extremo, nunca sabe como va a jugar ese personaje gris, o si lo sabe y no se juega. Porque para él su jugada no es blanca ni oscura, es el gris y entonces aparecen sus actitudes educadas que se llaman hipocresia. Y el estudio de su diagnéstico certero puede consumirte afios de vida, porque siempre hace que juega el papel del correcto y correctamente hipécrita.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Basque: gris
Noun
[edit]gris m (plural grises)
See also
[edit]blanco | gris | negro |
rojo; carmín, carmesí | naranja, anaranjado; marrón | amarillo; crema |
lima | verde | menta |
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo | celeste, cerúleo | azul |
violeta; añil, índigo | magenta; morado, púrpura | rosa, rosado |
Further reading
[edit]- “gris”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Yorkshire_pigs_at_animal_sanctuary.jpg/350px-Yorkshire_pigs_at_animal_sanctuary.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Norse gríss.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris c
- pig (a mammal of the genus Sus)
- Synonym: svin
- Grisens ungar kallas (gris)kultingar / spädgrisar
- Baby pigs ["the pig's young" – calling animals bebisar (“babies”) is unidiomatic in Swedish] are called piglets
- a nasty or dirty person
- Synonym: (leans more toward contemptible jerk) svin
- Du är en riktig gris.
- You are such a pig.
- (slang, derogatory) a pig (cop, police officer)
- (slang, derogatory, in the singular definite "grisen") the pigs (the police, collectively)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gris | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | gris | grisen | grisar | grisarna |
Genitive | gris | grisens | grisars | grisarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- gris in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- gris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- gris in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris
- lipid (oil, fat, grease, etc.)
- flattery
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:1:
- God, Bikpela i bin wokim olgeta animal, tasol i no gat wanpela bilong ol inap winim snek long tok gris. Na snek i askim meri olsem, “Ating God i tambuim yutupela long kaikai pikinini bilong olgeta diwai bilong gaden, a?”
Related terms
[edit]Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle English grece, from Old French grez, plural of gré, from Latin gradus. Doublet of gradd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris f or m (plural grisiau)
Mutation
[edit]- Asturian lemmas
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- ast:Colors
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- Rhymes:Basque/is̺
- Rhymes:Basque/is̺/1 syllable
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- Catalan terms derived from Frankish
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- ca:Greys
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- Rhymes:Danish/iːˀs
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- Danish lemmas
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- da:Meats
- da:Pigs
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- Rhymes:Galician/is
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- nds-de:Colors
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- enm:Mammals
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- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Colors
- nrf:Drinking
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- nb:Pigs
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- nn:Pigs
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/is
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