granum

English

From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and grao.

granum (plural grana)

granum (plural granums)

(obsolete, regional) One's grandmother.
- 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 175:
  Each of 'em has a ſev'ral Gin, / To catch Intelligences in. / Some by the Noſe vvith fumes trapan 'em, / As Dunſtan did the Devil's Grannum.

grānum n (genitive grānī); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: grãn
- Megleno-Romanian: grǫn, grăn
- Romanian: grâu
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Corsican: granu
- Dalmatian: grun
- Italian: grano, grana
- Sicilian: granu
- Venetan: gran
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: gran
- Ladin: gran
- Romansch: graun
Gallo-Italian:
- Piedmontese: gran, gran-a
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: gra
- Old French: grain
  - Middle French: grain
    - French: grain
  - → Irish: gráinne
  - → Middle English: greyn, grayn, grayne, grein, greyne, grone
    - English: grain
    - Scots: grain
    - Yola: gryne
- Occitan: gran
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: granu, grana (from neuter plural)
- Ladino: גראנו (grano)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: grão
  - Galician: gran
  - Portuguese: grão, gram (obsolete), graõ (obsolete), grao (obsolete)
    - Macanese: grám
- Spanish: grano
→ Basque: garau
→ German: Gran (learned)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *grānō (see there for further descendants)

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grānum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 271: “*grāno-”

“granum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“granum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"granum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
granum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 722.
granum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2962