Noun: grelo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | grelo |
| Plural m | grelos |
Sample Sentences
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A trinidade do galego: nabo, nabiza e grelo (The trinity of the Galicians: turnip, turnip greens and grelos) [1976, Maruxa Barrio Val, Textos pra o ensino do galego, A Coruña: Ed. do Rueiro., →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like grelo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”), making it a doublet of grilo. See: Latin Nouns '
gryllus'.
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