grottesco
Italian
Etymology
From grotta (“cave”) + -esco (relational suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡrotˈte.sko/
- Rhymes: -esko
- Hyphenation: grot‧té‧sco
Adjective
grottesco (feminine grottesca, masculine plural grotteschi, feminine plural grottesche)
- grotesque
Derived terms
- grottescamente
Descendants
- → Catalan: grotesc
- → Middle French: grotesque
- → English: grotesque
- French: grotesque
- → Romanian: grotesc
- Piedmontese: grotesch
- → Portuguese: grotesco
- → Spanish: grotesco
Further reading
- grottesco in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana