grelo

Uncertain; perhaps from Latin gryllus (“cricket, grasshopper”),^[1] but compare grilo.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo̝/
• (eastern) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾilo̝/

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. shoot, sprout
2. (cooking, in the plural) pre-flowering Brassica rapa (turnip) greens, usually consumed in caldo or as a side dish

   Synonym: cimo

   • 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

• grelar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grelo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “grelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “grelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• grelo on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

Borrowed from French grêle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡre.lo/

grelo (plural greli)

1. (weather) hail, hail storm

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

• Rhymes: -elu
• Hyphenation: gre‧lo

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. sprout (new growth on a plant)
2. (cooking, in the plural) turnip greens
3. (vulgar, slang) clitoris, clit or clitty

Borrowed from Galician grelo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾelo/ [ˈɡɾe.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: gre‧lo

grelo m (plural grelos)

1. turnip greens

• nabo

• “grelo”, 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