grajo

Back-formation from Grajo, having been named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrajo/
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Hyphenation: gra‧jo

grajo (accusative singular grajon, plural grajoj, accusative plural grajojn)

1. gray (SI unit of absorbed radiation)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.jɔ/
• Rhymes: -ajɔ
• Syllabification: gra‧jo

grajo

1. third-person singular present of graś

grajo (Cyrillic spelling грајо)

1. vocative singular of graja

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *graclu(s), syncopated form of Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-k- (“croak”). Compare English grackle, Italian gracchio, and Portuguese gralho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaxo/ [ˈɡɾa.xo]
• Rhymes: -axo
• Syllabification: gra‧jo

grajo m (plural grajos, feminine graja, feminine plural grajas)

1. a kind of bird:
   1. rook (Corvus frugilegus)
   2. jay, grackle (general term) (clarification of this definition is needed)
   3. San Blas jay (Cyanocorax sanblasianus)

      Synonyms: cháchara, cherrete, querre-querre, queixque San Blasiano

   4. great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)

      Synonyms: acazanate, clarinero, huertero, itzlaolzanate, izanatl, mulato, pájaro prieto, papate, picho, tordo grande, tordo macho, urraca, zanate

2. (Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic) body odour

   Synonym: sobaquina

3. a kind of plant:
   1. (Cuba, Puerto Rico) white stopper Eugenia axillaris
   2. (Cuba) Auerodendron cubense
   3. (Dominican Republic) white twinevine (Funastrum clausum)
4. (rare) charlatan

   Synonym: charlatán

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 419

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