gryllus
See also: Gryllus
English
Etymology
From Latin gryllus (“comic figure, caricature”).
Noun
gryllus (plural grylli)
- Alternative form of gryllos.
Latin
Alternative forms
- grillus
Etymology
Either borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “performer in an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature”), or onomatopoeic in origin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡryl.lʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡril.lus]
Noun
gryllus m (genitive gryllī); second declension
- cricket, grasshopper
- (art) a comic figure
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gryllus | gryllī |
| genitive | gryllī | gryllōrum |
| dative | gryllō | gryllīs |
| accusative | gryllum | gryllōs |
| ablative | gryllō | gryllīs |
| vocative | grylle | gryllī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: grillu ⇒ grilleru
- Catalan: grell, grill ⇒ grilló
- Dalmatian: gril
- → English: gryllus
- Esperanto: grilo
- → French: grylle
- ⇒ French: grelet (patois, western)
- Galician: grilo
- Gallurese: griddu
- >? Ido: grilio
- Italian: grillo ⇒ grilletto, grillino
- → Maltese: grillu
- Ladin: gri
- Lombard: grin
- Neapolitan: grillo, arillo, griḍḍi (Taranto)
- Occitan: greu, griu, grith, gril
- Portuguese: grilo, grelo
- Sardinian: grillu, brillu
- ⇒ Sassarese: grìgliuru
- Sicilian: agriḍḍu, arillu, ariddru, irridru, griddu
- Spanish: grillo
- → Portuguese: grilho
- Translingual: → Gryllus, ⇒ Gryllacris
- Vulgar Latin: *gryllius
References
- “gryllus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gryllus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “gryllus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “gryllus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “gryllus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 290
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “grillus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 268
- Cano González, Ana Maria & Germain, Jean & Kremer, Dieter (eds.). 2004. Dictionnaire historique de l'anthroponymie romane: Patronymica Romanica (PatRom). Vol. III.2. Berlin: De Gruyter. Pages 925–947.