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==English==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|en|es|gringo}}, from {{m|es|griego||Greek}}, used for anyone who spoke an unintelligible language. {{doublet|en|Greek}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ɡɹɪŋɡəʊ/}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-gringo.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪŋɡəʊ|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|s|gringoes}}

# {{lb|en|slang|often|pejorative}} A [[white]] person from an [[English]]-speaking [[country]], particularly the [[United States]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2017|author=B. M. Bower|title=The Gringos: The Tale of the California Gold Rush Days
|passage=Truly it is as Don José tells me; these '''gringos''' have come but to make trouble where all was peace.}}

====Synonyms====
* See [[Thesaurus:white person]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|Gringoland}}
* {{l|en|Gringolandia}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|gringa}} {{qualifier|female}}
* {{l|en|gringophobia}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a white person from an English-speaking country}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|美國佬|tr=měiguólǎo}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|גְּרִינְגּוֹ|tr=gríngo|sc=Hebr}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|グリンゴ|tr=guringo|sc=Jpan}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|gringo|m}}, {{t+|pt|gringa|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|гри́нго|m|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|gringo|m}}, {{t+|es|gringa|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|gringo|c}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ฝรั่ง}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|ґрі́нґо|m|f|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|uk|грі́нго|m|f|sc=Cyrl}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Further reading===
* {{pedia}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=gginor|Goring|goring|orging}}

{{cln|en|ethnic slurs}}
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==Portuguese==
{{wp|lang=pt}}

===Etymology===
{{bor+|pt|es|gringo}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pt-IPA}}
* {{rhyme|pt|ĩɡu|s=2}}
* {{hyph|pt|gri|go}}

===Noun===
{{pt-noun|m|f=+}}

# {{lb|pt|Brazil|colloquial}} a [[foreigner]], especially one from a Northern country and especially one from the United States
#: {{syn|pt|estrangeiro}}
# {{lb|pt|Rio Grande do Sul|colloquial}} someone of (more commonly) [[Italian]] or (more rarely) [[European]] descent.
#: {{syn|pt|colono}}

===Adjective===
{{pt-adj}}

# {{lb|pt|Brazil|colloquial}} [[foreign]] {{gloss|from another country, especially the United States or another developed one}}
#: {{ux|pt|Aquele cara ali é '''gringo'''.|t=That dude over there is a '''foreigner'''.}}
#: {{ux|pt|Comprei um telefone '''gringo'''.|I bought a '''foreign-made''' telephone.}}
# {{lb|pt|Rio Grande do Sul|colloquial}} someone of (more commonly) [[Italian]] or (more rarely) [[European]] descent.
#: {{syn|pt|colono}}

===Usage notes===
* Unlike English and Spanish ''gringo'', this Portuguese term is not inherently offensive.
* The usage of ''gringo'' varies greatly between speakers and can have a broader meaning if compared to English and Spanish <ref>{{cite-journal|pt|author=Thaddeus Blanchette|title=Estrangeiro - Gringo - Brasileiro: Aproximação e afastamento entre brasileiros e não-brasileiros|journal=TRAVESSIA - Revista Do Migrante|number=44|location=São Paulo|publisher=Peres|year=2002|month=Sep.–Dec.|accessdate=2024-01-18|pages=18–23|doi=10.48213/travessia.i44.853}}</ref>:
** It can refer to any foreigner — uncommon usage and rarely applies to people of African or Latin American origin. 
** It refers only to Americans — also uncommon.
** It refers to people from the [[Global North]] exclusively, especially from Northern Europe, the US and Canada — the most common use of the term.

===References===
<references />

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==Spanish==

===Etymology===
Possibly from {{m|es|griego||Greek}}, particularly from the phrase {{m|es||[[hablar]] [[en]] [[griego]]|to speak Greek}}, with a similar connotation to the English phrase {{m|en|it's all Greek to me}}. Possibly influenced by {{m|es|peregrino||pilgrim}}. Or else due to the ubiquity of the song {{w|Green Grow the Lilacs}} among the men who settled the interior of the American continent.

===Pronunciation===
{{es-pr}}

===Noun===
{{es-noun|m|f=+}}

# {{lb|es|sometimes|pejorative|Latin America}} a fair-skinned [[foreigner]] whose native language is not Spanish
#: {{syn|es|gabacho<q:Spain, Mexico>|guiri<q:Spain>}}
#* {{quote-book|es|year=1786|title=Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes y sus correspondientes en las 3 lenguas francesa, latina e italiana|author=Esteban de Terroros y Pando; Beatriz Varela|newversion=quoted in|editor2=Félix Rodríguez González|title2=Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal|chapter2=Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English|location2=Berlin; New York|year2=1996|publisher2=Mouton de Gruyter|url2=http://books.google.com/books?id=09NEuGHh2R8C&pg=PA143&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn=9783110148459|page2=143|passage=... '''''gringos''''', llaman en Málaga a los extranjeros, que tienen cierta especie de acento, que los priva de una locución fácil, y natural Castellana; y en Madrid dan el mismo, y por la misma causa con particularidad a los irlandeses.
|translation=gringos is what, in Malaga, they call foreigners who have a certain kind of accent that prevents them from speaking Castilian easily and naturally; and in Madrid they give the same name, in particular, to the Irish.
}}
# {{lb|es|sometimes|pejorative|Latin America}} an American (a person from the United States), especially a white American.
#: {{cot|es|angloamericano|estadounidense|norteamericano}}
#* {{quote-web
|es
|date=2008-10-08
|year=
|author=Antonio Caballero
|title=El negro gringo (o el gringo negro)
|site=Semana
|url=http://m.semana.com/opinion/articulo/el-negro-gringo-o-gringo-negro/96350-3
|accessdate=2014-08-01
|passage=Pero la realidad es más terca que la corrección política, y el hecho real es que Barack Obama, próximo presidente de los Estados Unidos, es un '''gringo''', y es un negro. O, si se prefiere así, es un negro, y es un '''gringo'''.
|translation=But the reality is more stubborn than political correctness, and the fact is that Barack Obama, the next president of the United States, is a gringo, and is a black. Or, if you so prefer, is a black, and a gringo.
}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|es|agringar}}
* {{l|es|gringo de agua juca}} {{qualifier|Honduras}}
* {{l|es|Gringolandia}}, {{l|es|gringolandia|g=f}}
* {{l|es|Gringotenango}}
* {{l|es|gringuera|g=f}} {{qualifier|Honduras}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|gringo|bor=1}}
* {{desc|pt|gringo|bor=1}}

===See also===
* {{l|es|chele}} {{qualifier|Honduras}}
* {{l|es|cholo}}
* {{l|es|grencho}} {{qualifier|Honduras}}
* {{l|es|güero}}
* {{l|es|pocho}}
* {{l|es|guiri}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:es:DRAE}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070821215626/http://www.marrder.com/htw/jan97/editorial.htm Comprehensive etymology tracing it to before the Mexican-American war]

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==Swedish==

===Noun===
{{sv-noun|c}}

# a {{l|en|gringo}}

====Declension====
{{sv-decl-noun|gringo|gringon|gringos|gringosarna|gringos|gringons|gringos|gringosarnas}}

===References===
* {{R:svenska.se|so}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saol}}