gilo
noun
gilo is a noun meaning “Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-I-L-O, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gilo is gilos.
What does gilo mean?
noun
- 1
Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gilo
- gilos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gilo?
Gilo appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gilo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fruit of a species of fruiting plant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | äthiopische Eierfrucht, afrikanische Eierfrucht, afrikanische Aubergine |
| Portuguese | jiló |
| Spanish | berenjena etíope, berenjena africana |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gilo come from?
Borrowed from Portuguese giló, jiló, from Kimbundu njilu.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).