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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡruːs/, [ɡruːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡrus/, [ɡrus]

grūs f or m (genitive gruis); third declension

1. crane, a bird also eaten as food
2. a type of siege weapon

• Feminine by default.

Third-declension noun.

• (weapon): corvus

• gruō

• “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’s 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
2. red clay (on a tennis court), hard court

• grusa
• grusig

• asfalt
• gräs
• knastra
• morän
• sand
• singel
• stone

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

From Middle High German and Old High German grōz.

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grūs

1. great
2. big

• (antonym(s) of “big”): klīn