garúa
See also: garua
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish garúa, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Classical Latin cālīgō (“fog, mist, vapor”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
garúa f (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- garúa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from dialectal Portuguese caruja.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
garúa f (plural garúas)
- (Latin America) drizzle (very light rain)
- Synonym: llovizna
- garua (a very fine mist or drizzle that visits the Andean region, especially Ecuador and Peru)
Further reading edit
- “garúa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014