grocería

grocería (plural grocerías)

1. Alternative form of groceria.
   • 1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90:

     She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.

   • 1990, Robert Chibka, chapter 6, in A Slight Lapse, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 182:

     It’s a street like hundreds of others in New York, it’s got a subway stop on it, it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.

   • 2013, Will Ludwigsen, “The Ghost Factory”, in In Search Of and Others, Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 124:

     What little I eat comes from a grocería about ten miles down Highway 31, a place where the migrants buy their food.

Borrowed from French grocerie or English grocery.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾoθeˈɾia/ [ɡɾo.θeˈɾi.a] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɾoseˈɾia/ [ɡɾo.seˈɾi.a] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: gro‧ce‧rí‧a

grocería f (plural grocerías)

1. (Louisiana) grocer
2. (Louisiana, New Mexico, in the plural) groceries

• → English: groceria, grocería