grosa

From groso (“fat, big”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾɔsɐ]

grosa f sg

1. feminine singular of groso

grosa m (plural grosas)

1. rasp (coarse file)
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 145:

     alinpa a huña ataa sas rreyzes contra o touello dapar de a coroa do pee ontre o uiuo et a huna morta con puxauante ou con grosa ataa que começe a deitar sange

     clean the hoof till its roots at the ankle, by the crown of the toe, in between the living tissue and the dead hoof, with puxavante or rasp, until it begins to draw blood

2. gross (a dozen of dozens)

• “grossa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “grosa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “grosa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “grosa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

grosa

1. fat

• magra

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gred- (compare Albanian gërresë (“rasp, scraper”)).[1]

grōsa f (genitive grōsae); first declension

1. A rasp, scraper

First-declension noun.

• Galician: grosa
• Portuguese: grosa

• “grosa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grosa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Hyphenation: gro‧sa

grosa f (plural grosas)

1. rasp (coarse file on which the cutting prominences are distinct points)

   Synonyms: raspa, raspadeira

2. gross (a dozen of dozens)

grosa

1. inflection of grosar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative