grao

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See also: grão, graõ, and graó

English

Etymology

From Portuguese grão (grain), from Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Doublet of grain and grange.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin gradus.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Etymology 2

Noun

grao m (plural graos)

  1. Alternative form of gran (grain)

References

  • grao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • grao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • grao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • grao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Old High German

Etymology

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

Adjective

grāo

  1. grey

Descendants

  • 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 , (newer, from about 1925)
      Pennsylvania German: gro
    • Yiddish: גראָ (gro), גרוי (groy)

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Adjective

grāo

  1. grey

Declension


Descendants

Portuguese

Noun

grao m (plural graos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of grau
  2. Obsolete spelling of grão

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan grau (step, stair).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾao/
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Syllabification: gra‧o

Noun

grao m (plural graos)

  1. shore, strand

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