grifo

See also: Grifo

English

Etymology

Related to Spanish grifa.

Noun

grifo (uncountable)

1. (slang) Cannabis.
   • 1972, United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana: a Signal of Misunderstanding, page 484:

     […] the smoking in cigarettes or pipes of marihuana or grifo. Its use is as demoralizing as the use of narcotics. Smoking grifo is quite prevalent along the Oregon Short Line Railroad; and Idaho has no law to cope with the use and spread […]

   • 2017, Marcelo Mendoza, Robert L. Barnes, El Gato Negro: Escaping Thirteen Deaths, volume IV, page 657:

     The operator was a man who liked to smoke grifo. Just my luck that day, my friend backpack happened to have a good supply of what I needed to sell to him.

Anagrams

• Frigo

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish grifo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾipo/, [ˈɡɾi.po]
• Hyphenation: gri‧po

Noun

grifo

1. faucet; tap

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrifo]
• Rhymes: -ifo
• Hyphenation: gri‧fo

Noun

grifo (accusative singular grifon, plural grifoj, accusative plural grifojn)

1. griffin

Italian

Etymology

Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡri.fo/
• Rhymes: -ifo
• Hyphenation: grì‧fo

Noun

grifo m (plural grifi)

1. griffin
2. snout

Related terms

• grifone

Anagrams

• forgi, frigo, frigo-, grofi

Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gryphus.

Noun

grīfo m

1. griffin

Descendants

• Middle High German: grīfe
  • German: Greif

Portuguese

grifo

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese grifo, from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾi.fu/

• Rhymes: -ifu
• Hyphenation: gri‧fo

Noun

grifo m (plural grifos)

1. (fantasy) griffin
2. (heraldry) griffin
3. Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)
4. monkey wrench

Related terms

• hipogrifo

Etymology 2

Verb

grifo

1. first-person singular present indicative of grifar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin grȳphus, from grȳps, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾifo/ [ˈɡɾi.fo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ifo
• Syllabification: gri‧fo

Noun

grifo m (plural grifos)

1. tap, faucet (device used to dispense liquids)
2. (Peru) petrol station, garage, filling station, gas station, service station

   Synonyms: gasolinera, estación de servicio, (Chile) bencinera, (Mexico) gasolinería, (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Venezuela) bomba

3. griffin
4. (heraldry) griffin

Derived terms

• agua de grifo
• agua del grifo
• grifería

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: grifo
• → Aymara: grifo
• → Cebuano: gripo
• → Hiligaynon: gripo
• → Kapampangan: gripu
• → Maguindanao: gulipu
• → Maranao: giripo
• → Pangasinan: gripo
• → Quechua: grifu
• → Sambali: gripo
• → Tagalog: gripo
• → Tausug: giripu

Adjective

grifo (feminine grifa, masculine plural grifos, feminine plural grifas)

1. (colloquial) intoxicated (by alcohol, cannabis)

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “grifo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 213

Further reading

• “grifo”, 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