grullo

English

Alternative forms

• grulla

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish grullo, from grulla (“crane (bird)”).

Noun

grullo (countable and uncountable, plural grullos)

1. A colouring of horses characterized by smoky or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs.
2. A horse having this colouring.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 251:

     At first light they followed the dim tracks of her father's grullo, nearly obliterated by the rain but, when she put herself in the right mind, clear enough to follow.

Italian

Etymology

From Lombardic *grollo (“rancor, anger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrul.lo/
• Rhymes: -ullo
• Hyphenation: grùl‧lo

Adjective

grullo (feminine grulla, masculine plural grulli, feminine plural grulle)

1. (dialectal, Tuscany) stupid, silly

Noun

grullo m (plural grulli, feminine grulla)

1. fool, idiot

Related terms

• grullagine

Further reading

• grullo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• grullo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• grullo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• grùllo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• grullo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• grullo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Etymology

From grulla (“crane”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾuʝo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈɡɾuʝo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈɡɾuʎo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈɡɾuʃo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈɡɾuʒo/ [ˈɡɾu.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -uʝo

• Rhymes: -uʝo
• Rhymes: -uʎo
• Rhymes: -uʃo
• Rhymes: -uʒo

• Syllabification: gru‧llo

Adjective

grullo (feminine grulla, masculine plural grullos, feminine plural grullas)

1. (Mexico, said of horses) having an ashen color

Further reading

• “grullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28