gruis

See also: Gruis

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gruus, from Old French groisse, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *greot, ultimately related to *greutą (“grits, coarse grains”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrœy̯s/

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• Hyphenation: gruis
• Rhymes: -œy̯s

Noun

gruis n (uncountable, diminutive gruisje n)

1. grit, ground stone or rocks

Derived terms

• steengruis

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: greis

Latin

Noun

gruis

1. genitive singular of grūs

References

• “gruis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gruis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gruis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.