grosso
See also: Grosso
Galician
Adjective
grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossos, feminine plural grossas)
- reintegrationist spelling of groso
References
- “grosso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡrɔs.so/
- Rhymes: -ɔsso
- Hyphenation: gròs‧so
Adjective
grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossi, feminine plural grosse, superlative grossissimo, diminutive grossétto, augmentative grossóne)
Derived terms
Noun
grosso m (plural grossi)
- the main part of something
- (numismatics) groschen
Further reading
- grosso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- grosso on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡrɔs.soː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡrɔs.so]
Adjective
grossō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of grossus
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese grosso, from Latin grossus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɾo.su/
- Hyphenation: gros‧so
Adjective
grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossos, feminine plural grossas, comparable, comparative mais grosso, superlative o mais grosso or grossíssimo, metaphonic)
- dense; thick (relatively great in extent from one surface to another)
- viscous; thick (having consistency between solid and liquid)
- crude; unrefined (of low quality)
- (of a person) rude; uncouth; uncivil (without manners)
- (of texture) rough (not plain; with friction)
- (of sound) deep (low in pitch)
- obscene; distasteful; vulgar (offensive to morality)
- (slang) aboundant (in high quantity)
Descendants
Further reading
- “grôsso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “grosso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “grosso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025