grifo – Spanish noun declension

Noun: grifo
Gender: m Hyphenation: gri‧fo

Singular m	grifo
Plural m	grifos

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like grifo

whopper, egocentrismo, cervantismo, nipofilo, botellazo, radionúclido, palenque, esferoide, hierodiácono, miligramo, entrenamiento, saxófono, oligopéptido, espongocele, contratiempo, entrechocamiento, decímetro, carrotanque, mililitro, mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Pre-Greekbor.?
3. Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps)bor.
4. Latin grȳps
5. Late Latin grȳphuslbor.
6. Old Spanish grifo
7. Spanish grifo
8. Inherited from Old Spanish grifo, a learned borrowing from Late Latin grȳphus (“griffin”), from Latin grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).
9. Noun sense 1 (“faucet”) comes from the ornamentations which fountain faucets commonly bore, which often featured griffin heads. Compare Aragonese jeta (literally “snout”), Catalan aixeta, English cock, French robinet (literally “little sheep”), and German Hahn (literally “rooster”) for similar semantic developments. See: Latin Nouns 'grȳps'.

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