gryllus

See also: Gryllus

English

From Latin gryllus (“comic figure, caricature”).

gryllus (plural grylli)

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “performer in an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature”), or onomatopoeic in origin.

gryllus m (genitive gryllī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

Asturian: grillu ⇒ grilleru
Catalan: grell, grill ⇒ grilló
Dalmatian: gril
→ English: gryllus
Esperanto: grilo
→ French: grylle
⇒ French: grelet (patois, western)
Gallurese: griddu
>? Ido: grilio
Italian: grillo ⇒ grilletto, grillino
- → Maltese: grillu
Ladin: gri
Lombard: grin
Neapolitan: grillo, arillo, griḍḍi (Taranto)
Occitan: greu, griu, grith, gril
Old Galician-Portuguese: *grilo
- Fala: grilu
- Galician: grilo, >? grelo
- Portuguese: grilo
Old Spanish: grillo
- Ladino: grío
- Spanish: grillo
Sardinian: grillu, brillu
⇒ Sassarese: grìgliuru
Sicilian: agriḍḍu, arillu, ariddru, irridru, griddu
Translingual: → Gryllus, ⇒ Gryllacris
Vulgar Latin: *gryllius
- ⇒ Franco-Provençal: grelyèt
- ⇒ French: grillet (eastern patois, Normandy), grillon
- Friulian: gri ⇒ grïòn
- Italian: grigliu (Lazio)
- Occitan: grelh, grilh ⇒ grilhet
- ⇒ Romanian: greier, grier, greiere, griore
- Romansch: gregl, grigl ⇒ griglign, grigliun
- Venetan: griło, grijo, grigio, grei

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