grus

grus (plural gruses)

1. (geology) An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.

• rugs

From Middle Low German grus, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːs/, [ɡ̊ʁuːˀs]

grus n (singular definite gruset, not used in plural form)

1. gravel

• kattegrus (“kitty litter”)

• “grus” in Den Danske Ordbog

• gruis f

From Proto-Italic *grūs, from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥h₂ú-, from *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate to English crane, but not to grouse (of unknown origin).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡruːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrus]

grūs f or m (genitive gruis); third declension

1. crane (bird), sometimes eaten as a delicacy
2. battering ram

   Synonym: corvus

• Usually feminine.

Third-declension noun.

• Vulgar Latin: *grua f
  • Old French: grue f
    • Middle French: grue f
      • French: grue f

Unsorted:

• “grus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “grus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "grus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Middle Low German grus.

grus m or n (definite singular grusen or gruset)

1. gravel

• grusvei, grusveg

• “grus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German grus.

grus m or n (definite singular grusen or gruset)

1. gravel

• grusveg

• “grus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish grus, from Middle Low German grus, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”).

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• Rhymes: -ʉːs

grus n

1. gravel (small pieces of stone)

   Gruset knastrade under skosulorna

   The gravel crunched under the soles of my shoes

   en näve grus

   a fistful of gravel

2. (figuratively) dust

   malas till grus

   be ground into dust

3. red clay (on a tennis court), hard court

   spela på grus

   play on clay

• grusa
• grusig

• asfalt
• gräs
• knastra
• morän
• sand
• singel
• sten

• grus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• grus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• grus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• grūs

From Middle High German grōȥ, from Old High German grōȥ, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”).

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grūs

1. big, great

• (antonym(s) of “big”): klīn