Noun: grotesque
| Singular | grotesque |
| Plural | grotesques |
Sample Sentences
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Obese and largely unintelligible, Don Vito represents a working-class white male grotesque, the picture of excess. [2009, Emily Chivers Yochim, Skate Life, page 128:]
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He’s also the new character from Sacha Baron Cohen, the man behind Ali G, Borat and Brüno: that unholy trinity of comic grotesques that told us a lot more about ourselves than we’d like to admit. [2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):]
Nouns inflected like grotesque
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek κρύπτω (krúptō)
3. Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ)bor.
4. Latin crypta
5. Italian grotta
6. Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
7. Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
9. Vulgar Latin -iscus
10. Italian -esco
11. Italian grottescobor.
12. Middle French grotesquebor.
13. English grotesque
14. Borrowed from Middle French grotesque, from Italian grottesco, from grotta (“cave”) + -esco (relational suffix). By surface analysis, grotto + -esque. Compare French grotesque, English grotto. See: Italian Nouns '
grottesco', French Nouns '
grotesque', English Nouns '
grotto'.
Verbs referencing "grotesque"
English Nouns
guro.