Translation
greasy, fatty; fat (of meat or food)
Word origin
From Latin crassus ('thick, dense') by way of Vulgar Latin grassus, which crossed with a form of the same family behind French gras and Italian grasso. English grease comes down the same line.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- crassus
- English cognates
- grease, crass
Examples
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The meat is too fatty for me.
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She does not like greasy soup.
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Full-fat milk makes better butter.
The root noun is graso, fat as a substance - the stuff in the pan, the layer on the meat, the content of the milk. is the adjective from it, so it describes things that contain or are covered in fat: , , , .
It is not the polite word for a fat person. For that, Esperanto uses dika, which means thick or stout and is the ordinary, unloaded description; o is a stout person. reads as greasy rather than stout, which is a good deal ruder than the speaker usually intends. This is the sort of mistranslation that produces a genuinely unpleasant sentence out of a perfectly innocent English one, so it is worth fixing before it happens.
Two more senses worth carrying. In typography means bold: is a bold letter, o a bold typeface, and this is standard in Esperanto publishing. And i means to fatten (an animal), while is lean or thin, the word a butcher uses about a cut of meat.
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