gryllus

From Latin gryllus (“comic figure, caricature”).

gryllus (plural grylli)

1. Alternative form of gryllos

• grillus

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύλλος (grúllos, “performer in an Egyptian dance, comic figure, caricature”), or onomatopoetic in origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡryl.lus/, [ˈɡrʏlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡril.lus/, [ˈɡrilːus]

gryllus m (genitive gryllī); second declension

1. cricket, grasshopper
2. (art) a comic figure

Second-declension noun.

• gryllō

• “gryllus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gryllus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gryllus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gryllus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “gryllus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 290
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “grillus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 268
• Cano González, Ana Maria & Germain, Jean & Kremer, Dieter (eds.). 2004. Dictionnaire historique de l'anthroponymie romane: Patronymica Romanica (PatRom). Vol. III.2. Berlin: De Gruyter. Pages 925–947.