granum
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of gram, grain, and corn.
Noun[edit]
granum (plural grana)
- (biology) A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
granum (plural granums)
- (obsolete, regional) One's grandmother.
Alternative forms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *grānom from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.num/, [ˈɡräːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.num/, [ˈɡräːnum]
Noun[edit]
grānum n (genitive grānī); second declension
Declension[edit]
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 |
Derived terms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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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