Adjective: gris
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | gris |
| Singular f. | grise |
| Plural m. | gris |
| Plural f. | grises |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes amis [My Friends], Paris: Émile-Paul Frères:]
Adjectives inflected like gris
soumis,
javanais,
versaillais,
bernois,
dieppois,
dauphinois,
yprois,
bangladais,
longueuillois,
néozélandais,
presbourgeois,
molenbeekois,
yukonais,
carthaginois,
plaisirois,
bahianais,
perclus,
pervers,
lorientais,
torontois, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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. See: German Adjectives '
greis', Dutch Adjectives '
grijs'.
Verbs referencing "gris"
Romanian Adjectives
gri, Latin Adjectives
griseus, English Adjectives
griseous, German Adjectives
greis.
Translations