grelo
Galician

Grelos at the marketplace
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”), although the semantic evolution from insect to shoot is not trivial.[1]
Noun
grelo m (plural grelos)
- shoot, sprout.
- (cooking, in the plural) pre-flowering Brassica rapa (turnip) greens, usually consumed in caldo or as a side dish.
- 1976, Maruxa Barrio Val, Textos pra o ensino do galego. A Coruña: Ed. do Rueiro. →ISBN:
- A trinidade do galego: nabo, nabiza e grelo
- The trinity of the Galicians: turnip, turnip greens and grelos
- A trinidade do galego: nabo, nabiza e grelo
- 1976, Maruxa Barrio Val, Textos pra o ensino do galego. A Coruña: Ed. do Rueiro. →ISBN:
Derived terms
References
- “grelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “grelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “grelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. grillo.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡre.lo/
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɾelo/
- Hyphenation: gre‧lo
See also
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