From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutÄ…. More at grit, grout.
Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois ("a coin of Tours"), from Medieval Latin denarius ("coin") grossus. Related to German Groschen
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