crío
Spanish, noun
crío is spelled C-R-Í-O (4 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 31,236th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crío is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “kid (used in Spain)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of criar. Without its accent, crio is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of criar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Niño pequeño”.
What does crío mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinekid (used in Spain)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of criar
prefix
- 1
cryo-
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of criar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. Elemento compositivo que significa "frío o helado".
noun: 1. Niño pequeño.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crío
- críos plural
- cría feminine
- crías feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to crío
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crío in Spanish?
crío appears 1.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).