# grifo
## English
### Etymology

Related to Spanish grifa.

### Noun

grifo (uncountable)
* (slang) Cannabis.
** 1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484:[…] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]
** 2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657:The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.

### Anagrams

* Frigo

## Chavacano
### Etymology

From Spanish grifo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾipo/, [ˈɡɾi.po]
* Hyphenation: gri‧po

### Noun

grifo
* faucet; tap

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Common Romance.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡrifo]
* Rhymes: -ifo
* Hyphenation: gri‧fo

### Noun

grifo (accusative singular grifon, plural grifoj, accusative plural grifojn)
* griffin

## Italian
### Etymology

Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡri.fo/
* Rhymes: -ifo
* Hyphenation: grì‧fo

### Noun

grifo m (plural grifi)
* griffin
* snout

#### Related terms

* grifone

### Anagrams

* forgi, frigo, frigo-, grofi

## Old High German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gryphus.

### Noun

grīfo m
* griffin

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: grīfe
** German: Greif

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese grifo, from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾi.fu/
* Rhymes: -ifu
* Hyphenation: gri‧fo

#### Noun

grifo m (plural grifos)
* (fantasy) griffin
* (heraldry) griffin
* Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)
* monkey wrench

##### Related terms

* hipogrifo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

grifo
* first-person singular present indicative of grifar

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin grȳphus, from grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾifo/ [ˈɡɾi.fo]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -ifo
* Syllabification: gri‧fo

### Noun

grifo m (plural grifos)
* tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
* (Peru) petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station
    Synonyms: gasolinera, estación de servicio, (Chile) bencinera, (Mexico) gasolinería, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela) bomba
* griffin
* (heraldry) griffin

#### Derived terms

* agua de grifo
* agua del grifo
* grifería

#### Descendants

* Chavacano: grifo
* → Aymara: grifo
* → Cebuano: gripo
* → Hiligaynon: gripo
* → Kapampangan: gripu
* → Maguindanao: gulipu
* → Maranao: giripo
* → Pangasinan: gripo
* → Quechua: grifu
* → Sambali: gripo
* → Tagalog: gripo
* → Tausug: giripu

### Adjective

grifo (feminine grifa, masculine plural grifos, feminine plural grifas)
* (colloquial) intoxicated (by alcohol, cannabis)

### References

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “grifo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 213

### Further reading

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