# gris
## Asturian
### Adjective

gris (epicene, plural grises)
* grey / gray

### Noun

gris m (plural grises)
* grey / gray

## Basque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡris̺/ [ɡris̺]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -is̺
* Hyphenation: gris

### Adjective

gris (comparative grisago, superlative grisen, excessive grisegi)
* gray / grey
* dreary
* sad
* neutral (having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality)

#### Declension
### Noun

gris inan
* gray / grey

#### Declension
### See also

Colors in Basque · koloreak (layout · text) :
| zuri | gris | beltz |
| gorri | laranja; marroi | hori |
| | berde | |
| | oztin | urdin |
| ubel | more | arrosa |

## Catalan
### Etymology

Derived from Frankish *gris.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾis]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)

### Adjective

gris (feminine grisa, masculine plural grisos, feminine plural grises)
* grey / gray

#### Derived terms

* grisalla
* grisejar
* grisenc
* griset
* griseta
* grisós

### Noun

gris m (plural grisos)
* grey / gray

### See also

Colors in Catalan · colors (layout · text) :
| blanc | gris | negre |
| roig, vermell; carmesí | taronja; marró | groc; crema |
| verd llima | verd | |
| cian; xarxet | atzur | blau |
| violat; indi | magenta; lila, porpra | rosa |

### Further reading

* “gris” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gris”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gris” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gris” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Derived from Old Norse gríss.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡriːˀs/, [ˈɡ̊ʁiˀs]
* Rhymes: -iːˀs

#### Noun

gris c (singular definite grisen, plural indefinite grise)
* pig (a mammal of the family Suidae)
    Synonym: svin
* pork (meat from a pig)
    Synonyms: grisekød, svin, svinekød

##### Derived terms

* grise
* grisefest
* grisekød
* pattegris
* sparegris

#### References

* “gris” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡ̊ʁis]

#### Verb

gris
* imperative of grise

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

gris
* inflection of grissen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Etymology

Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, both from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”). Akin to Old High German grīs (“grey”) (German greis) and Dutch grijs (“grey”). More at grizzle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁi/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

gris (feminine grise, masculine plural gris, feminine plural grises)
* grey / gray
* (colloquial) drunk, tipsy
** 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis‎:Si je n’avais pas été gris, je n’aurais certes pas étalé mes papiers. Ils ont dû ennuyer Billard.If I hadn't been drunk, I certainly wouldn't have displayed my papers. They must have bored Billard.

#### Derived terms

* ambre gris
* baleine grise
* bihoreau gris
* chardonneret gris
* crevette grise
* écureuil gris
* éminence grise
* faire grise mine
* gobemouche gris
* griser
* grivette
* la nuit, tous les chats sont gris
* requin gris
* vin gris

### Noun

gris m (plural gris)
* gray / grey

#### Descendants

* → Greek: γκρι (gkri)
* Louisiana Creole: gri
* Mauritian Creole: gri
* → Portuguese: griso
* → Romanian: gri
* Seychellois Creole: gri
* → Turkish: gri

### See also

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text) :
| blanc | gris | noir |
| rouge; cramoisi, carmin | orange; brun, marron | jaune; crème |
| lime | vert | menthe |
| cyan, turquoise; bleu canard | azur, bleu ciel | bleu |
| violet, lilas; indigo | magenta; pourpre | rose |

### Further reading

* “gris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gris (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French gris, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾis/ [ˈɡɾis̺]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡɾis/ [ˈɡɾis̺]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħɾis/ [ˈħɾis̺]
* Rhymes: -is

### Adjective

gris
* grey / gray
* (archaic, of pelts) of squirrel

#### Derived terms

* grisallo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gris”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gris”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gris”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gris”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gris”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## German Low German
### Alternative forms

* gries

### Etymology

Cognate with German greis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡriːs/

### Adjective

gris
* (in some dialects) grey / gray

### See also

* graag, grau (graug)

## Lombard
### Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris.

### Adjective

gris m (feminine grisa)
* grey / gray

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse gríss, potentially from or related to Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

#### Alternative forms

* grys, gryce, grice, grise

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡriːs/, /ɡris/

#### Noun

gris (plural grises)
* A young pig, grice.
* pork (the meat of such a pig)
* A boar.

##### Descendants

* English: grice (dialectal)
* Scots: grice

#### References

* “grī̆s, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gris (plural grises)
* Alternative form of grys

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* gri (Sark)

### Etymology

Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, in either case from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰregʰwos (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to glow, shine”).

### Adjective

gris m
* grey / gray
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 534:Rouage ser, gris matin, ch'est la jouaie du pélerin.A red evening and a grey morning are the pilgrim's joy.
* (Jersey) drunk
    Synonyms: bédé-ouinne, blindé, bragi, bringuesingue, chonmé, en bouaisson, envitoué, gâté d'béthe, ivre, souîn, soûl

#### Derived terms

* grisi (“to go grey”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

Derived from Old Norse gríss.

#### Noun

gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser, definite plural grisene)
* pig
    Synonym: svin

##### Derived terms

* grise
* grisunge
* sparegris

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gris
* imperative of grise

### References

* “gris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse gríss.

### Noun

gris m (definite singular grisen, indefinite plural griser or grisar, definite plural grisene or grisane)
* pig
    Synonym: svin

#### Inflection

Historical inflection of gris
indefinite singular
definite singular
indefinite plural
definite plural
Aasen$^1$
ein Gris
Grisen
Griser
Griserne
1901
griser (grisir)
griserne (grisine)
1917
griser
grisene
1938
grisar
grisane
1986
griser [grisar]
grisene [grisane]
2012 (current)
ein gris
grisen
grisar, griser
grisane, grisene
other
grisi
grisin
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. $^1$Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. :

#### Derived terms

* grise
* grisunge
* sparegris

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾis/

### Adjective

gris m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grise)
* gray / gray

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French gris, from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾis̺/

### Adjective

gris
* grey / gray (having a colour between white and black)

#### Descendants

* Galician: gris
* Portuguese: gris

### See also

Colors in Old Galician-Portuguese · coores, colores (layout · text) :
| branco, blanco, alvo | gris | negro, preto |
| vermelho | castanho | amarelo |
| | verde | |
| | | azur |
| | cardẽo | rosa |

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gris, from Old French gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾis/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾis/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈɡɾiʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾiʃ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
* Hyphenation: gris

### Adjective

gris (invariable)
* grey / gray (having a colour between white and black)
    Synonyms: cinza, cinzento, acinzentado

#### Related terms

* grisalho

### Noun

gris m (uncountable)
* grey / gray (the colour between white and black)
    Synonym: cinza

### See also

Colors in Portuguese · cores (layout · text) :
| branco, alvo, cândido | cinza, gris, cinzento | preto, negro, atro |
| vermelho, encarnado, rubro, salmão; carmim | laranja, cor de laranja; castanho, marrom | amarelo, lúteo; creme, ocre |
| verde-limão | verde | verde-água; verde-menta |
| ciano, turquesa; azul-petróleo | azul-bebê, azul-celeste | azul, índigo, anil |
| violeta, lilás | magenta; roxo, púrpura | rosa, cor-de-rosa, rosa-choque |

## Romanian
### Noun

gris n (uncountable)
* Alternative form of griș

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Derived from Occitan or Old Occitan gris, from Frankish *gris, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾis/ [ˈɡɾis]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -is
* Syllabification: gris

### Adjective

gris m or f (masculine and feminine plural grises)
* grey / gray
    materia gris ― grey matter
    zona gris ― grey area
* boring, dull
    Ella lleva una vida gris.She has a dull life.
* overcast, cloudy
    Hay poca luz porque el día está gris.There's little light because the day is overcast.
* morally ambiguous
    Juan de Galicia es un personaje muy gris.Juan de Galicia is a very morally ambiguous character.
** 1912 April 17, “Aproposito de campanas”, in Salvador Canals, editor, Mundo gráfico: Revista popular ilustrada‎, number 25, page 4:¿qué mucho que abunden tanto las desengañadas, ese tipo de mujer moralmente gris, ni mala ni buena, ociosa é inútil desde el punto de vista social, que da á la Iglesia la beata; á una intelectualidad exacerbada, la feminista, y á la revolución, las fieras que ponen las notas de mayor violencia en las convulsiones populares?(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1977, La otra opinión: editoriales de El Siglo, Volume 2, Editorial Revista Colombiana, page 164:Hay zonas de la administración en que por su índole, porque su campo está demasiado próximo a la delincuencia, la corrupción se presenta al mismo tiempo por abajo y por arriba y se crea esa moral gris de la que hemos hablado, en donde lo ilícito es lo "natural" y sólo se distingue por grados que generalmente van acuerdo con la 164.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2015, Vicente Palermo, La alegría y la pasión: Relatos brasileños y argentinos en perspectiva comparada, Katz, page 133:Aunque el jeitinho es siempre un instrumento que posibilita la quiebra de las reglas (de modo particularista), el problema es que ante asimetrias sociales y leyes que no se pueden cambiar, el jeitinho es una adaptación, equivale a una zona moral gris entre lo “correcto” y lo “incorrecto”.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2020, Serna Dimas Adrián, Poética de la tierra caliente: Hecho colonial, mitología nacional y violencia en la cuenca media del río Magdalena, Colombia, Editorial Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, page 388:León es un personaje gris: es un defensor de que la mina es sagrada porque es del Gobierno, es un estricto persecutor de quienes pretenden asaltarla, pero igualmente.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2021, Silvia Magro Vela, Belén Puebla Martínez, Nuria Navarro Sierra, editors, Ficcionando sinergias. Los profesionales se buscan en la ficción televisiva española, Editorial Dykinson, page 94:Asi, junto al heroico abogado defensor del inocente y al artero defensor del culpable, ha aparecido el personaje gris de moral autonoma —cuestionable, si se quiere, pero real— que puede llegar a convertirse en protagonista.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2022, César Augusto Pires Torres, Vivencias cantadas en prosas y relatos, Editorial Autores de Argentina, page 116:Ese es el que bebe de tu vaso el agua cristalina que con su sentir lo convierte en turbia y el personaje extremo, nunca sabe como va a jugar ese personaje gris, o si lo sabe y no se juega. Porque para él su jugada no es blanca ni oscura, es el gris y entonces aparecen sus actitudes educadas que se llaman hipocresia. Y el estudio de su diagnéstico certero puede consumirte afios de vida, porque siempre hace que juega el papel del correcto y correctamente hipécrita.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* agrisar
* aliso gris
* ámbar gris
* ballena gris
* chorlito gris
* grisura
* lirón gris
* magia gris
* materia gris
* pedrete gris
* sustancia gris
* zorra gris
* zorro gris

#### Descendants

* → Basque: gris

### Noun

gris m (plural grises)
* grey / gray

### See also

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text) :
| blanco | gris | negro |
| rojo; carmín, carmesí | naranja, anaranjado; marrón | amarillo; crema |
| lima | verde | menta |
| cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo | celeste, cerúleo | azul |
| violeta; añil, índigo | magenta; morado, púrpura | rosa, rosado |

### Further reading

* “gris”, 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse gríss.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡriːs/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)

### Noun

gris c
* pig (a mammal of the genus Sus)
    Synonym: svin
    Grisens ungar kallas (gris)kultingar / spädgrisarBaby pigs ["the pig's young" – calling animals bebisar (“babies”) is unidiomatic in Swedish] are called piglets
* a nasty or dirty person
    Synonym: (leans more toward contemptible jerk) svin
    Du är en riktig gris.You are such a pig.
* (slang, derogatory) a pig (cop, police officer)
    Synonyms: snut, byling, polis
* (slang, derogatory, in the singular definite "grisen") the pigs (the police, collectively)
    Synonyms: aina, farbror blå, bängen, snuten, bylingen, polisen

#### Derived terms

* grisaktig
* grisblod
* grisfarm
* grisfest
* grisfoder
* grisfot
* grishuvud
* griskotlett
* griskulting
* griskött
* grismat
* grisskär
* grisstia
* gristryne
* grisuppfödning
* grisöga
* grisögd
* grisöra
* gullegris
* kelgris
* lortgris
* lyckogris
* mansgris
* sminka en gris
* spädgris

#### Related terms

* grisa
* griseri
* grisig

### See also

* galt
* gylta
* kulting
* nöff
* so
* sugga
* svinstia
* vildsvin
* vårtsvin

### References

* gris in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* gris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* gris in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

Derived from English grease.

### Noun

gris
* lipid (oil, fat, grease, etc.)
* flattery
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:1:God, Bikpela i bin wokim olgeta animal, tasol i no gat wanpela bilong ol inap winim snek long tok gris. Na snek i askim meri olsem, “Ating God i tambuim yutupela long kaikai pikinini bilong olgeta diwai bilong gaden, a?”→New International Version translation

#### Related terms

* grisim

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English grece, from Old French grez, plural of gré, from Latin gradus. Doublet of gradd.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡriːs/

### Noun

gris f or m (plural grisiau)
* step, stair

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.