grano
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English
Etymology
From Spanish grano (“grain, 1/9216 Spanish pound”), from Latin grānus (“grain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of grain.
Noun
grano (plural granos)
- (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.
Synonyms
- Spanish grain, grain (Spanish contexts)
Coordinate terms
- (unit of mass): tomin (12 granos), escrupulo (24 granos), adarme (36 granos), ochava (72 granos), castellano (96 granos), onza (576 granos), libra (9,216 granos)
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
grano
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
grano (plural granos)
- (informal, Canada) granola (eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment etc.)
- 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme, →ISBN, page 53:
- Elles étaient toutes superbes, chacune dans un style différent. J’ai engagé des preppies, des granos, des gothiques, des alternos, des baveuses et des discrètes, des intellos et des skateuses, des pops, des rocks, des punks, des trouées, des tatouées, des campagnardes, des banlieusardes et des urbaines, des filles de bars, des filles de raves, des filles de rêves.
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- 2018 August 11, “Être grano, c’est quoi ?”, in L'Express, retrieved 2021-12-16:
- On tombe aussi sur beaucoup de sites un peu louches et de forums, sur lesquels les internautes se défendent bec et ongles de ne pas être grano. On propose même sur le site de IGA une recette de végé-pâté «pas trop grano».
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Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian grano, Spanish grano, Portuguese grão.
Pronunciation
Noun
grano (plural grani)
- grain (a very small, hard mass; particles or layers in a material)
Derived terms
- graneto (“particle, iota, crumb”)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin grānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.
Pronunciation
Noun
grano m (plural grani)
- wheat, corn
- Synonym: frumento
- grain (of cereal, or small piece of something)
- bead (of the rosary)
- peppercorn
- Synonym: grano di pepe
- money
- pin
Derived terms
- farina di grano
- germe di grano (“wheat germ”)
- granello (“grain; speck; testicle”)
- granicolo (“wheat”, relational)
- granicoltura (“wheat growing”)
- granifero (“wheat-producing”)
- granigione
- granire (“to granulate; to form grains or seeds”)
- granivoro (“granivorous”)
- grano duro (“durum wheat”)
- grano saraceno (“buckwheat”)
- granoso (“grain- or corn-producing”)
- granoturco (“maize”)
- ingranare (“to engage; to mesh; to fit in, get along”)
- sgranare (“to shell, hull, husk”)
Related terms
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
grānō
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *granō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.noː/, (anachronistic)
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.no/,
Noun
granō m (genitive granōnis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin, non-literary, Germanic) moustache
- ca. 785, anonymous, Lex Frisionum 17:
- Si granones praecisi fuerint, ter IIII solidis componatur.
- If moustache is cut off, it shall be paid back with four solidi three times.
- Si granones praecisi fuerint, ter IIII solidis componatur.
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
grano
- impersonal past of grać
Portuguese
Verb
grano
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
grano (Cyrillic spelling грано)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish grano, from Latin grānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Cognate with Galician gran, Portuguese grão, and Catalan gra.
Noun
grano m (plural granos)
- grain (the seed of various grass food crops)
- grain, seed, kernel, bean (a single seed of certain crops)
- un grano de arroz ― a grain of rice
- un grano de maíz ― a kernel of corn
- grain (a single similar particle of various substances)
- un grano de arena ― a grain of sand
- pimple, blackhead (a blocked skin pore, typically inflamed, painful, and filled with pus)
- Estoy tan estresada que me salen granos.
- I'm so stressed that I'm getting pimples.
- (figurative) point (the main intent or focus of a conversation)
- grain (the linear texture of a material or surface, especially wood)
- (photography) grain (flawed visual texture present in most processed photographic film)
- (historical) grano, Spanish grain (a traditional small unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg)
- (historical) grain (any of various traditional units of mass notionally based on the weight of different grains)
Coordinate terms
- (unit of mass): tomín (12 granos), escrúpulo (24 granos), adarme (36 granos), ochava (72 granos), castellano (96 granos), onza (576 granos), libra (9,216 granos)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
grano
Further reading
- “grano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014