# grus
## English
### Noun

grus (plural gruses)
* (geology) An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.

### Anagrams

* rugs

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German grus, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡruːs/, [ɡ̊ʁuːˀs]

### Noun

grus n (singular definite gruset, not used in plural form)
* gravel

#### Derived terms

* kattegrus (“kitty litter”)

### References

* “grus” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *grūs, from *gr̥h₂ú-, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate to English crane, but not to grouse, whose etymology is unknown.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ɡruːs/, [ɡruːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ɡrus/, [ɡrus]

### Noun

grūs f or m (genitive gruis); third declension
* crane, a bird also eaten as food
* a type of siege weapon

#### Usage notes

* Feminine by default.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (weapon): corvus m

#### Derived terms

* gruō

#### Descendants

* Vulgar Latin: *grua f
** Old French: grue f
*** Middle French: grue f
**** French: grue f
Unsorted:
* Albanian: kurrilë
* Catalan: grua f
* English: Grus
* Translingual: Grus
* Galician: grúa f
* Italian: gru f
* Piedmontese: gru f
* Portuguese: grou m, grua f (possibly via French), grulha (via Spanish)
* Romanian: grui m
* Spanish: grulla f, grúa f
* Translingual: Grues, Grus

### References

* “grus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “grus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* grus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German grus.

### Noun

grus m or n (definite singular grusen or gruset)
* gravel

#### Derived terms

* grusvei, grusveg

### References

* “grus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Middle Low German grus.

### Noun

grus m or n (definite singular grusen or gruset)
* gravel

#### Derived terms

* grusveg

### References

* “grus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish grus, from Middle Low German grus, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʉːs

### Noun

grus n
* gravel; small pieces of stone
* red clay (on a tennis court), hard court

#### Derived terms

* grabbarna grus
* grusbacke
* grusbana
* grusbank
* grusbelägga
* grusbeläggning
* grusbil
* grusbädd
* grusgrop
* grusgång
* grushög
* gruskorn
* grusning
* grusplan
* grusspelare
* grustag
* grustennis
* grustäckt
* grustäkt
* grusviva
* grusväg+
* grusås
* grusöken

#### Related terms

* grusa
* grusig

#### See also

* asfalt
* gräs
* knastra
* morän
* sand
* singel
* stone

### References

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

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German grōz.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

grūs
* great
* big

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “big”): klīn