granum

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English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

granum (plural grana)

  1. (biology) A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.

Etymology 2

Noun

granum (plural granums)

  1. (obsolete, regional) One's grandmother.
Alternative forms

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *grānom from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.

Pronunciation

Noun

grānum n (genitive grānī); second declension

  1. grain, seed, small kernel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative grānum grāna
Genitive grānī grānōrum
Dative grānō grānīs
Accusative grānum grāna
Ablative grānō grānīs
Vocative grānum grāna

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References

  • “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
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