gryllus

See also: Gryllus

English

Etymology

From Latin gryllus (“comic figure, caricature”).

Noun

gryllus (plural grylli)

1. Alternative form of gryllos

Latin

gryllus (cricket)

Alternative forms

• grillus

Etymology

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “performer in an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature”), or onomatopoetic in origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡryl.lus/, [ˈɡrʏlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡril.lus/, [ˈɡrilːus]

Noun

gryllus m (genitive gryllī); second declension

1. cricket, grasshopper
2. (art) a comic figure

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gryllus	gryllī
Genitive	gryllī	gryllōrum
Dative	gryllō	gryllīs
Accusative	gryllum	gryllōs
Ablative	gryllō	gryllīs
Vocative	grylle	gryllī

Derived terms

• gryllō

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
• Vulgar Latin: *gryllius
  • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: grillot, grillet
  • ⇒ French: grillet (eastern patois, Normandy), grillon
  • Friulian: gri ⇒ grïòn
  • Italian: grigliu (Lazio)
  • Occitan: grelh, grilh ⇒ grilhet
  • ⇒ Romanian: greier, grier, greiere, griore
  • Romansch: gregl, grigl ⇒ griglign, grigliun
  • Venetian: griło, grijo, grigio, grei

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 (in German), 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.