gross
Senso
-
- Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- (informal) Causing disgust.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- Dense, heavy.
- Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- Difficult or impossible to see through.
- Not sensitive in perception or feeling.
- (obsolete) Easy to perceive.
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ɡɹəʊs/
Etimologia
From Middle English gross (“whole, entire; flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stout”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), influenced by Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to stroke, to grind”). Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (“large”) (Berry) and grô (“large”) (Burgundy), Catalan gros (“big”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great.
Cognato con francese
grossier
Cognato con catalano
gros
Cognato con olandese
groot
Cognato con tedesco
groß
Cognato con inglese
great
Migliora la tua pronuncia
Inizia ad apprendere inglese con learnfeliz .
Esercitati a parlare e a memorizzare " gross " e molte altre parole e frasi in inglese .
Vai alla nostra pagina del corso inglese
Notes
Sign in to write sticky notes