grullo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish grullo, from grulla (“crane (bird)”).
Noun edit
grullo (countable and uncountable, plural grullos)
- A colouring of horses characterized by smoky or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs.
- A horse having this colouring.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 251:
- At first light they followed the dim tracks of her father's grullo, nearly obliterated by the rain but, when she put herself in the right mind, clear enough to follow.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Lombardic *grollo (“rancor, anger”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
grullo (feminine grulla, masculine plural grulli, feminine plural grulle)
Noun edit
grullo m (plural grulli, feminine grulla)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- grullo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- grullo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- grullo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- grùllo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- grullo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- grullo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From grulla (“crane”).
Pronunciation edit
- Syllabification: gru‧llo
Adjective edit
grullo (feminine grulla, masculine plural grullos, feminine plural grullas)
Further reading edit
- “grullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014