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gro

See also: Gro, GRO, -gro-, and gró

English

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Etymology 1

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Shortening of gross (adjective), perhaps via grody.

Adjective

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gro (comparative more gro, superlative most gro)

  1. (US, slang) Disgusting, unpleasant; gross.
    Wash your hair! It's totally gro.

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Etymology 2

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Shortening of gross (noun).

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gro

  1. The cardinal number occurring after el do el (↋↋) and before gro one (101) in a duodecimal system. Written 100, decimal value 144.

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Etymology 3

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Shortening of grove.

Noun

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gro

  1. (UK, in street addresses) Abbreviation of grove.

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Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

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Inherited from French gros (“big, fat, thick; important”).

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Adjective

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gro m (feminine gròs)

  1. big
    Synonym: gran
  2. fat
    Antonym: mæg
  3. thick
    Synonym: (of liquids) épé
    Antonyms: étrwa, fin, léjé, mins
  4. important
    Synonym: importan
  5. (of weather) bad, unfavorable

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Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Old High German grāo, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Cognate with German grau, English grey, Dutch grijs, Icelandic grár.

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gro (masculine groen, neuter grot, comparative méi gro, superlative am groosten)

  1. grey

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Declension of gro
singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative hien ass gro si ass gro et ass gro si si(nn) gro
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner groen gro grot gro
independent without determiner groes groer
dative after any declined word groen groer groen groen
as first declined word groem groem

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Colors in Luxembourgish · Faarwen (layout · text)
     wäiss      gro      schwaarz
             rout              orange; brong              giel
                          gréng             
             turquoise              blo (hellblo, himmelblo)              blo (donkelblo)
             violett; indigo              magenta; mof              rosa; pink

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse gróa.

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gro (imperative gro, present tense gror, passive -, simple past grodde, past participle grodd, present participle groende)

  1. to grow
  2. to sprout, germinate

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse gróa. Akin to English grow.

Verb

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gro (present tense gror, past tense grodde, past participle grodd or grott, passive infinitive groast, present participle groande, imperative gro)

  1. to grow (of plants and body hair)
    Graset gror godt i denne varmen.
    The grass is growing well in this heat.
  2. to sprout, germinate
  3. to heal (of cuts and sores)
    Ta plaster på såret til det gror.
    Put a band-aid on the sore until it heals.
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Etymology 2

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Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krodu (“toad”) of origin unknown. Compare Swedish groda (with plural ending -or). Before Ivar Aasen, attested by Erik Pontoppidan in 1749, having masculine gender. Also attested by Christen Jenssøn in 1646.

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gro f (definite singular groa, indefinite plural grør, definite plural grørne)

  1. (Trøndersk, Hedmark, Gudbrandsdal, Helgeland, Nordmøre) a toad
    Synonym: padde

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  • “gro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “gro” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
  • Erik Pontoppidan den yngre (1749) Glossarium Norvagicum (in Danish), page 54
  • Torleiv Hannaas (1915) Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 27

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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From Old High German grao, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Compare German grau, Dutch grauw, English gray, Icelandic grár, Swedish grå.

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gro

  1. gray, grey

Polish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Syllabification: gro

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gro

  1. vocative singular of gra

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From French gros.

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  • IPA(key): /ɡrôː/
  • Hyphenation: gro

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grȏ (Cyrillic spelling гро̑)

  1. much, a lot
    Synonyms: pȕno, mnȍgo, dȍsta

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  • “gro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English grow.

Verb

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gro

  1. To grow.

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse gróa. Cognate with English grow.

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Verb

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gro (present gror, preterite grodde, supine grott, imperative gro)

  1. (intransitive) to sprout, germinate
  2. (transitive) to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed)
  3. (intransitive, figurative) take hold; increase; grow

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gro (weak)
active passive
infinitive gro gros
supine grott grotts
imperative gro —
imper. plural1 gron —
present past present past
indicative gror grodde gros groddes
ind. plural1 gro grodde gros groddes
subjunctive2 gro grodde gros groddes
present participle groende
past participle grodd

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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  • grodd (“germ, sprout”)

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *grọw, from Proto-Celtic *grāwā.

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gro m (collective, singulative gröyn)

  1. gravel, pebbles
    Synonym: graean

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gro
radical soft nasal aspirate
gro ro ngro unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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