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Galician

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Adjective

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grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossos, feminine plural grossas)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of groso

References

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  • grosso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Italian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin grossus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɔs.so/
  • Rhymes: -ɔsso
  • Hyphenation: gròs‧so

Adjective

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grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossi, feminine plural grosse, superlative grossissimo, diminutive grossétto, augmentative grossóne)

  1. big, large
  2. fat
    Carlo il GrossoCharles the Fat
  3. thick
  4. heavy
    Synonym: massiccio
  5. rough (of the sea)

Derived terms

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Noun

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grosso m (plural grossi)

  1. the main part of something
  2. (numismatics) groschen

Further reading

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  • grosso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • grosso on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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grossō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of grossus

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese grosso, from Latin grossus, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷres-.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: gros‧so

Adjective

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grosso (feminine grossa, masculine plural grossos, feminine plural grossas, comparable, comparative mais grosso, superlative o mais grosso or grossíssimo, metaphonic)

  1. dense; thick (relatively great in extent from one surface to another)
  2. viscous; thick (having consistency between solid and liquid)
  3. crude; unrefined (of low quality)
  4. (of a person) rude; uncouth; uncivil (without manners)
  5. (of texture) rough (not plain; with friction)
  6. (of sound) deep (low in pitch)
  7. obscene; distasteful; vulgar (offensive to morality)
  8. (slang) aboundant (in high quantity)

Descendants

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  • Kabuverdianu: grós
  • Ambonese Malay: garos
  • Manado Malay: goros

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