grange
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English
Etymology
From Middle English graunge, borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪndʒ
Noun
grange (plural granges)
- (archaic) A granary.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [Comus], London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, line 175:
- […] the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.
- (British) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 120:
- What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.
- (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.
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Franco-Provençal
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Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grānica.
Noun
grange f (plural granges) (ORB, broad)
References
- grange in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- grange in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Further information
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 664: “grange” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*granĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 225
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French grange, from Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
grange f (plural granges)
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Further reading
- “grange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
grange f
Middle French
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Etymology
From Old French grange, granche.
Noun
grange f (plural granges)
- granary (grain store)
Descendants
- French: grange
Norman
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Etymology
From Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).
Noun
grange f (plural granges)
Old French
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Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *grānica.
Noun
grange oblique singular, f (oblique plural granges, nominative singular grange, nominative plural granges)
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Descendants
Borrowings:
- → Italian: grangia
- → Middle English: graunge, grange, gronge
- → Old Catalan: granja
- Catalan: granja
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: grangia
- → Old Spanish: granja
- Spanish: granja
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grange)
- grange_1 on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*granĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 225