groat

See also: Groat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹoʊt/
• IPA^(key): /ɡɹəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɔːt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt

Etymology 1

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą. More at grit, grout.

Noun

groat (countable and uncountable, plural groats)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Hulled grain.

Derived terms

• Embden groats

Related terms

• grit, grits
• grout, grouts
• gruel
• meal
• semolina

Translations

hulled grain

• Armenian: ձավար (hy) (javar), կորկոտ (hy) (korkot)
• Belarusian: крупа́ f (krupá)
• Bulgarian: булгур (bg) m (bulgur)
• Czech: kroupa (cs) f
• Danish: gryn n
• Dutch: gort (nl) m
• Estonian: kruup
• Finnish: suurimo (fi), ryyni (fi)
• Georgian: ბურღული (burɣuli)
• German: Graupe (de) f, Grütze (de) f
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• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄλφιτα n pl (álphita)

• Irish: piocuaran m (in the plural)
• Latvian: putraimi pl
• Polish: krupa (pl) f
• Russian: крупа́ (ru) f (krupá)
• Slovak: krúpa f
• Spanish: granos (es) m pl
• Swedish: gryn (sv) n
• Ukrainian: крупа́ f (krupá)
• Welsh: rhynionyn m

Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), from Medieval Latin denarius (“coin”) grossus (“large”). Related to German Groschen.

Noun

groat (plural groats)

1. (archaic or historical) Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe,
     And ſcarſe a houſe to hide her head,
     Sometimes no penny to buy her bread,
     Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
     Or twil be puld out of her throat:

2. A historical English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
3. A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.

Translations

English silver four penny coin

• Irish: bonn bán m
• Japanese: グロート (gurōto)
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• Scottish Gaelic: gròt
• Welsh: grôt f, pisyn grôt m

See also

• Groat (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Argot, RATOG, argot, gator, gotra