# grito
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish grito.

### Noun

grito (plural gritos)
* A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.
** 2016 June 1, Randal Sheppard, A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968‎, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 140:During the post-election turmoil, an estimated fifteen thousand people gathered at the Angel of Independence on Independence Day 1988 for a grito organized by the PAN that the party described as an event “that signifies the authentic freedom of Mexico” and that focused on repudiating electoral fraud.
** 2021 December 13, Maira Garcia, “Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak”, in The New York Times‎, retrieved 2021-12-13:The night doesn’t begin to end until someone starts pouring tequila, plays this song [“Por Tu Maldito Amor”], and belts out a grito in their best Chente voice — operatic and soaring with a tinge of melancholy.

### See also

* yahoo
* yeehaw

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese grito (independently attested in both corpora; in Galician since circa 1300), back-formation from gritar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾito/ [ˈɡɾi.t̪ʊ]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡɾito/ [ˈɡɾi.t̪ʊ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħɾito/ [ˈħɾi.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: gri‧to

#### Noun

grito m (plural gritos)
* cry; shout; scream
    Synonym: berro
** c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 92:Et uĩjnan dando tã grãdes vozes et tã grandes gritos et fazendo tã grãdes roydos, que semellaua que todo o mũdo y vĩjnaAnd they were uttering so large voices and so large shouts and making so large noises that it seemed that all the world were coming there

#### References

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

grito
* first-person singular present indicative of gritar

## Ladino
### Noun

grito m (Latin spelling)
* shout

#### Related terms

* gritar

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾi.tu/
* Rhymes: -itu
* Hyphenation: gri‧to

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese grito, from gritar, from Vulgar Latin *crītāre, either from Latin quirītō or Frankish *krītan.

#### Noun

grito m (plural gritos)
* cry; shout; scream
    Synonyms: berro, clamor
    Antonym: sussurro
* (uncountable) screaming; shouting; din
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gritaria
    Antonyms: silêncio, calma

##### Derived terms

* grito de guerra

##### Related terms

* grita
* gritadeira
* gritador
* gritalhão
* gritante
* gritar
* gritaria

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

grito
* first-person singular present indicative of gritar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾito/ [ˈɡɾi.t̪o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ito
* Syllabification: gri‧to

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from gritar.

#### Noun

grito m (plural gritos)
* a cry, a yell, a scream, a growl

##### Derived terms

* a grito herido
* a grito limpio
* a grito pelado
* a gritos
* a voz en grito
* alzar el grito
* en un grito
* levantar el grito
* poner el grito en el cielo
* último grito

##### Descendants

* → English: grito

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

grito
* first-person singular present indicative of gritar

### Further reading

* “grito”, 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