granizo

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• Rhymes: -izu
• Hyphenation: gra‧ni‧zo

Borrowed from Spanish granizo.^[1][2] Compare inherited Portuguese grainço and Galician greiza.

granizo m (plural granizos)

1. hail (balls of ice)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

granizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of granizar

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈniθo/ [ɡɾaˈni.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɾaˈniso/ [ɡɾaˈni.so] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -iθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -iso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: gra‧ni‧zo

From Vulgar Latin *grānicium or from grano (“grain”) +‎ -izo. Alternative and less likely etymologies derive it from Latin grandinem (“hail, ice ball”), through a Vulgar Latin root *grand(i)niceum, or perhaps later influenced by grano and -izo; but dialectal Portuguese grainço (Cf. painço) and graelo shows a relation with Latin grānum.^[1] Compare a similar development in Occitan granissa. Cf. also Italian grandine.

granizo m (plural granizos)

1. (uncountable) hail

   Synonym: pedrisco

2. (countable) hailstone

   Synonym: piedra

• → Portuguese: granizo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

granizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of granizar

• “granizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024