gris
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Noun
[edit]grism(pluralgrises)
Basque
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris(comparativegrisago,superlativegrisen,excessivegrisegi)
Declension
[edit]indefinite | singular | plural | ||
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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]grisinan
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(femininegrisa,masculine pluralgrisos,feminine pluralgrises)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]grism(pluralgrisos)
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”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gris”,inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2024
- “gris”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gris”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grisc(singular definitegrisen,plural indefinitegrise)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gris
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]gris
- inflection ofgrissen:
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]DerivedfromOld FrenchorOld Occitan,both fromFrankish*grīs,fromProto-Germanic*grīsaz(“grey”).Akin toOld High Germangrīs(“grey”)(Germangreis) andDutchgrijs(“grey”).More atgrizzle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gris(femininegrise,masculine pluralgris,feminine pluralgrises)
- grey/gray
- (colloquial)drunk,tipsy
- 1924,Emmanuel Bove,Mes Amis[1]:
- Si je n’avais pas étégris,je n’aurais certes pas étalé mes papiers. Ils ont dû ennuyer Billard.
- If I hadn't beendrunk,I certainly wouldn't have displayed my papers. They must have bored Billard.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]grism(pluralgris)
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”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]InheritedfromOld Galician-Portuguesegris(13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), fromOld Frenchgris,fromFrankish*grīs,fromProto-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”,inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gris”,inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,editor (2006–2013), “gris”,inDicionario 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”,inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco,editor (2014–2024), “gris”,inTesouro 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]BorrowedfromOccitangris,fromFrankish*gris.
Adjective
[edit]grism(femininegrisa)
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]BorrowedfromOld Norsegríss,potentially from or related toProto-Germanic*grīsaz(“grey”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris(pluralgrises)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “grī̆s,n.(1).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]gris(pluralgrises)
- Alternative form ofgrys
Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]DerivedfromOld FrenchorOld Occitan,in either case fromProto-Germanic*grēwaz(“grey”),fromProto-Indo-European*gʰregʰwos(“grey”),fromProto-Indo-European*gʰer-(“to glow, shine”).
Adjective
[edit]grism
- grey/gray
- 1903,Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, inGuernsey Folk Lore[2],page534:
- Rouage ser,grismatin, ch'est la jouaie du pélerin.
- A red evening and agreymorning are the pilgrim's joy.
- (Jersey)drunk
Derived terms
[edit]- grisi(“to go grey”)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]grism(definite singulargrisen,indefinite pluralgriser,definite pluralgrisene)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]gris
References
[edit]- “gris”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]grism(definite singulargrisen,indefinite pluralgriserorgrisar,definite pluralgriseneorgrisane)
Inflection
[edit]Historical inflection ofgris
Forms initalicsare currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed underMidlandsnormalen.1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. |
Derived terms
[edit]Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]BorrowedfromFrankish*grīs,fromProto-Germanic*grīsaz(“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]grism(oblique and nominative feminine singulargrise)
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]BorrowedfromOld Frenchgris,fromFrankish*grīs,fromProto-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]InheritedfromOld Galician-Portuguesegris,fromOld Frenchgris,fromProto-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]grism(uncountable)
See also
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]grisn(uncountable)
- Alternative form ofgriș
Declension
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]DerivedfromOccitanorOld Occitangris,fromFrankish*gris,fromProto-Germanic*grīsaz(“grey”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]grismorf(masculine and feminine pluralgrises)
- grey/gray
- materiagris―greymatter
- zonagris―greyarea
- boring,dull
- Ella lleva una vidagris.
- She has adulllife.
- overcast,cloudy
- Hay poca luz porque el día estágris.
- There's little light because the day isovercast.
- morallyambiguous
- Juan de Galicia es un personaje muygris.
- Juan de Galicia is a verymorally ambiguouscharacter.
- 1912April 17, “Aproposito de campanas”, in Salvador Canals, editor,Mundo gráfico: Revista popular ilustrada[3],number25,page 4:
- ¿qué mucho que abunden tanto las desengañadas, ese tipo de mujer moralmentegris,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?
- (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)
- 1977,La otra opinión: editoriales de El Siglo, Volume 2,Editorial Revista Colombiana,page164:
- 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 moralgrisde la que hemos hablado, en donde lo ilícito es lo "natural" y sólo se distingue por grados que generalmente van acuerdo con la 164.
- (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)
- 2015,Vicente Palermo,La alegría y la pasión: Relatos brasileños y argentinos en perspectiva comparada,Katz,page133:
- Aunque eljeitinhoes 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, eljeitinhoes una adaptación, equivale a una zona moralgrisentre lo “correcto” y lo “incorrecto”.
- (pleaseadd an English translationof 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,page388:
- León es un personajegris:es un defensor de que la mina es sagrada porque es del Gobierno, es un estricto persecutor de quienes pretenden asaltarla, pero igualmente.
- (pleaseadd an English translationof 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,page94:
- Asi, junto al heroico abogado defensor del inocente y al artero defensor del culpable, ha aparecido el personajegrisde moral autonoma —cuestionable, si se quiere, pero real— que puede llegar a convertirse en protagonista.
- (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)
- 2022,César Augusto Pires Torres,Vivencias cantadas en prosas y relatos,Editorial Autores de Argentina,page116:
- 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 personajegris,o si lo sabe y no se juega. Porque para él su jugada no es blanca ni oscura, es elgrisy 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.
- (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- →Basque:gris
Noun
[edit]grism(pluralgrises)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gris”,inDiccionario de la lengua española,Vigésima tercera edición,Real Academia Española,2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grisc
- pig(a mammal of the genusSus)
- Synonym:svin
- Grisensungar kallas(gris)kultingar/spädgrisar
- Baby pigs [ "the pig'syoung "– calling animalsbebisar(“babies”)is unidiomatic in Swedish] are called piglets
- anastyordirtyperson
- Synonym:(leans more toward contemptible jerk)svin
- Du är en riktiggris.
- You are such apig.
- (slang,derogatory)apig(cop, police officer)
- (slang,derogatory,in the singular definite "grisen")thepigs(the police, collectively)
Declension
[edit]Declension ofgris | ||||
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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]- grisinSvensk ordbok(SO)
- grisinSvenska Akademiens ordlista(SAOL)
- grisinSvenska 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,Jenesis3:1:
- God, Bikpela i bin wokim olgeta animal, tasol i no gat wanpela bilong ol inap winim snek long tokgris.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]BorrowedfromMiddle Englishgrece,fromOld Frenchgrez,plural ofgré,fromLatingradus.Doubletofgradd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]grisform(pluralgrisiau)
Mutation
[edit]- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian adjectives
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian masculine nouns
- ast:Colors
- Basque terms borrowed from Spanish
- Basque terms derived from Spanish
- Basque terms with IPA pronunciation
- Basque terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Basque/is̺
- Rhymes:Basque/is̺/1 syllable
- Basque lemmas
- Basque adjectives
- Basque nouns
- Basque inanimate nouns
- Catalan terms derived from Frankish
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio links
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Greys
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Danish/iːˀs
- Rhymes:Danish/iːˀs/1 syllable
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Danish non-lemma forms
- Danish verb forms
- da:Meats
- da:Pigs
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Old Occitan
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
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- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French colloquialisms
- French terms with quotations
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Greys
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms borrowed from Old French
- Galician terms derived from Old French
- Galician terms derived from Frankish
- Galician terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Galician/is
- Rhymes:Galician/is/1 syllable
- Galician lemmas
- Galician adjectives
- Galician terms with archaic senses
- German Low German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German Low German lemmas
- German Low German adjectives
- nds-de:Colors
- Lombard terms borrowed from Occitan
- Lombard terms derived from Occitan
- Lombard terms derived from Frankish
- Lombard lemmas
- Lombard adjectives
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old Norse
- Middle English terms derived from Old Norse
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- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Mammals
- enm:Meats
- Norman terms derived from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Old Occitan
- Norman terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norman terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norman lemmas
- Norman adjectives
- Norman terms with quotations
- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Colors
- nrf:Drinking
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- nb:Pigs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Pigs
- Old French terms borrowed from Frankish
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- Old Galician-Portuguese terms borrowed from Old French
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Portuguese 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/is
- Rhymes:Portuguese/is/1 syllable
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iʃ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iʃ/1 syllable
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese indeclinable adjectives
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- Romanian lemmas
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- Romanian uncountable nouns
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- Spanish terms derived from Occitan
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- Rhymes:Spanish/is
- Rhymes:Spanish/is/1 syllable
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish epicene adjectives
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- es:Greys
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
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- sv:Baby animals
- sv:People
- sv:Pigs
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