grao

From Portuguese grão (“grain”), from Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and granum.

grao (plural graos)

1. (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 4.6 mm.
2. (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.

• Portuguese grain, grain (Portuguese contexts)

• (unit of length): ponto (¹⁄₂₄ grao), linha (¹⁄₂ grao), dedo (4 graos), polegada (6 graos)
• (unit of mass): vintem (2+¹⁄₄ graos), quilate (4 graos), escropulo (24 graos), oitava (72 graos), onça (576 graos)

• goar, Argo, Goar, rago, Rago, gora, Agro, Gora, agro, Garo, agro-

• • Rhymes: -ao

• • Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: gra‧o

From Latin gradus.

grao m (plural graos)

1. degree (of temperature)
2. (genealogy) degree
   • 1274, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 391:

     E se alguun ome uel moler contra esta mýa vendicon a deromper veer, assy de mýa parte como doutra agia a mýa maldiçon ata setimo grao e a yra de Deus pro sempre

     If any man or woman against this my selling comes, for breaking it, from my part as well as other's, have my curse until the seventh degree and the wrath of God forever

3. academic degree
4. degree (of angle measure)
5. (mathematics) degree of a polynomial

grao m (plural graos)

1. alternative form of gran (“grain”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “grao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “grao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “grao”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz.

grāo

1. grey

• Middle Dutch: grau
  • Dutch: grauw, graauw, graeuw (obsolete)
    • Afrikaans: grou
    • Jersey Dutch: xrāuje, grô
    • Negerhollands: grou

“grāo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *grāu, see also Old English græġ, Old Norse grár.

grāo

1. grey

• Middle High German: grā
  • Alemannic German: graaw
  • Bavarian: grau

    Gottscheerish: grūb

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: grau

    Luxembourgish: gro

  • East Central German:

    Vilamovian: graoj

  • East Franconian:
  • German: grau
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Frankfurterisch: IPA [kʀoː], (newer, from about 1925) [kʀau]

    Pennsylvania German: gro

  • Yiddish: גראָ (gro), גרוי (groy)

From Proto-West Germanic *grāu, see also Old English græġ, Old Norse grár.

grāo

1. grey

• Middle Low German: grāu
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: grag, grau

      Plautdietsch: greiw

  • → West Frisian: grauw

grao m (plural graos)

1. obsolete spelling of grau
2. obsolete spelling of grão

Borrowed from Catalan grau (“step, stair”). Doublet of grado.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾao/ [ˈɡɾa.o]
• Rhymes: -ao
• Syllabification: gra‧o

grao m (plural graos)

1. shore, strand

• “grao”, 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