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/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: gruis
  • Rhymes: -œy̯s

Noun

gruis n (uncountable, diminutive gruisje n)

  1. grit, ground stone or rocks

Derived terms

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.
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