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See also: Gro, GRO, -gro-, and gró

Translingual

Symbol

gro

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Groma.

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Shortening of gross (adjective), perhaps via grody.

Adjective

gro (comparative more gro, superlative most gro)

  1. (US, slang) Disgusting, unpleasant; gross.
    Wash your hair! It's totally gro.

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Etymology 2

Shortening of gross (noun).

Numeral

gro

  1. The cardinal number occurring after el do el (↋↋) and before gro one (101) in a duodecimal system. Written 100, decimal value 144.

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Etymology 3

Shortening of grove.

Noun

gro

  1. (UK, in street addresses) Abbreviation of grove.

Anagrams

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse gróa, from Proto-Germanic *grōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreH₁-. Related to græs and grøn.

Verb

gro (imperative gro, infinitive at gro, present tense gror, past tense groede, perfect tense groet)

  1. to grow
  2. to sprout, germinate

Conjugation

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Synonyms

Derived terms

  • begroet
  • grobund
  • grokraft
  • groning
  • indgroet
  • mosgroet
  • nedgroet
  • overgroet
  • selvgroet

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References

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from French gros (“big, fat, thick; important”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

gro m (feminine gròs)

  1. big
    Synonym: gran
  2. fat
    Antonym: mæg
  3. thick
    Synonym: (of liquids) épé
    Antonyms: étrwa, fin, léjé, mins
  4. important
    Synonym: importan
  5. (of weather) bad, unfavorable

Derived terms

  • gro tem

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German grāo, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Cognate with German grau, English grey, Dutch grijs, Icelandic grár.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gro (masculine groen, neuter grot, comparative méi gro, superlative am groosten)

  1. grey

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

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Colors in Luxembourgish · Faarwen (layout · text)
     wäiss      gro      schwaarz
             rout              orange; brong              giel
                          gréng             
             turquoise              blo (hellblo, himmelblo)              blo (donkelblo)
             violett; indigo              magenta; mof              rosa; pink
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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gróa.

Pronunciation

Verb

gro (imperative gro, present tense gror, passive -, simple past grodde, past participle grodd, present participle groende)

  1. to grow
  2. to sprout, germinate

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gróa. Akin to English grow.

Verb

gro (present tense gror, past tense grodde, past participle grodd or grott, passive infinitive groast, present participle groande, imperative gro)

  1. to grow (of plants and body hair)
    Graset gror godt i denne varmen.
    The grass is growing well in this heat.
  2. to sprout, germinate
  3. to heal (of cuts and sores)
    Ta plaster på såret til det gror.
    Put a band-aid on the sore until it heals.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krodu (“toad”) of origin unknown. Compare Swedish groda (with plural ending -or). First attested in 1646 by Christen Jenssøn from Askvoll. Attested by Erik Pontoppidan in 1749, but having masculine gender. Also known in Jacob Laugesen Bork’s glossary of Vesterålen dialect from 1698, but, as many other words in the glossary, is probably taken from Trøndelag dialect, which Bork himself was speaking.

Noun

gro f (definite singular groa, indefinite plural grør, definite plural grørne)

  1. (Trøndelag, Hedmark, Gudbrandsdal, Helgeland, Nordmøre) a toad
    Synonym: padde

References

  • “gro” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “gro” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
  • Erik Pontoppidan den yngre (1749), Glossarium Norvagicum (in Danish), page 54
  • Torleiv Hannaas (1915), Ældre norske Sprogminder : Christen Jensøns Den Norske Dictionarium (in Norwegian Nynorsk), page 27
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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Old High German grao, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz. Compare German grau, Dutch grauw, English gray, Icelandic grár, Swedish grå.

Adjective

gro

  1. gray, grey

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Syllabification: gro

Noun

gro

  1. vocative singular of gra

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrôː/
  • Hyphenation: gro

Adverb

grȏ (Cyrillic spelling гро̑)

  1. much, a lot
    Synonyms: pȕno, mnȍgo, dȍsta

References

  • “gro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English grow.

Verb

gro

  1. To grow.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gróa. Cognate with English grow.

Pronunciation

Verb

gro (present gror, preterite grodde, supine grott, imperative gro)

  1. (intransitive) to sprout, germinate
  2. (transitive) to sprout (to cause to grow from a seed)
  3. (intransitive, figurative) take hold; increase; grow

Conjugation

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1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

  • grodd (“germ, sprout”)

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References

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *grọw, from Proto-Celtic *grāwā.

Pronunciation

Noun

gro (plural, singular gröyn m)

  1. gravel, pebbles
    Synonym: graean

Derived terms

  • grobwll m (“gravel pit”)

Mutation

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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