gramo

Borrowed from Spanish gramo, from French gramme.

gramo

1. gram

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “gem-pro *gramaz?”)

gramo

1. (Sette Comuni) penitent, regretful

   Ich pin gramo haban gatant des. ― I regret doing this. (literally, “I am regretful, having done this.”)

• “gramo” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

A calque of French gramme.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡramo/
• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: gra‧mo

gramo (accusative singular gramon, plural gramoj, accusative plural gramojn)

1. gram

A calque of French gramme.

• Hyphenation: gra‧mo

gramo m (plural gramos)

1. gram

gramo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gramar

A calque of French gramme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡramo/

gramo (plural grami)

1. gram

Uncertain, related to Old French graim, grain (“sorrowful, sad, sorry”) (see chagrin), Cimbrian gramo, Old High German gram (“angry”) and Middle English gram (“angry”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gramaz (“furious, hostile”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.mo/
• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: grà‧mo

gramo (feminine grama, masculine plural grami, feminine plural grame) (obsolete, Lombardy)

1. wretched; needy, poor
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame ¶ sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza, ¶ e molte genti fé già viver grame,

     And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings seemed to be laden in her meagreness, ⁠and many folk has caused to live forlorn!

2. desirous

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• groma, magro

A calque of French gramme

gramo m (plural gramos)

1. gram

gramo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gramar

A calque of French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾamo/ [ˈɡɾa.mo]
• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: gra‧mo

gramo m (plural gramos)

1. gram

• Bikol Central: gramo
• Tagalog: gramo

• “gramo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish gramo, from French gramme.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾamo/ [ˈɡɾaː.mo]
• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: gra‧mo

gramo (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜇᜋᜓ)

1. gram

• kilogramo