grama

See also: -grama

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish grama (“grass”), from Latin grāmina, plural of grāmen (“grass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑːmə/, /ˈɡɹamə/

Noun

grama (countable and uncountable, plural gramas)

1. Various species of grass in the genus , including
   • 1864: Fitz-Hugh Ludlow in The Atlantic

     To understand the exquisite beauty of simple green grass, you must travel through eight hundred miles of sage-brush and grama...the latter, a stunted species of herbage, growing in ash tinted spirals, only two inches from the ground, and giving the Plains an appearance of being matted with curled hair or gray corkscrews. Its other name is “buffalo grass”; and in spite of its dinginess, with the assistance of the sage, converting all the Plains west of Fort Kearney into a model Quaker landscape, it is one of the most nutritious varieties of cattle fodder, and for hundreds of miles the emigrant drover’s only dependence.

   • 2005, Tom Drury, "Path Lights", in The New Yorker, 17 October 2005

     Every few years, Ingrid goes back to take a look, even though all that’s left is the old bleached shell of a house, surrounded by blue grama grass and tall trees with pale bark and waxy leaves.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 95:

     The grass was thick around us, grama and bluestem, more than could ever be eaten.

Anagrams

• Magar, marga, ragam, rāgam

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin grāmina (“grasses”), plural of grāmen. Cognate with Portuguese grama and Spanish grama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾama̝/

Noun

grama f (plural gramas)

1. grass, in particular
   1. couch grass (Elymus repens)

      Synonym: rengo

   2. Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon)

      Synonyms: cerreña, nervia

   3. velvetgrass ()

References

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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “grama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Adjective

grama f

1. feminine singular of gramo

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Occitan

Noun

grama m (plural gramas)

1. gram

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Old English

Alternative forms

• groma

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gramô. Cognate with Old Saxon gramo, Old Saxon gremi, Old High German gramo, Old Norse gremi. Akin also to Old English gram (“angry, cruel, fierce”), grimm, grim (“fierce, savage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑ.mɑ/

Noun

grama m (nominative plural graman)

1. anger, rage, wrath, indignation, fury; trouble
2. demonic spirit, devil, fiend, demon; imp, puck

Declension

Declension of grama (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	grama	graman
accusative	graman	graman
genitive	graman	gramena
dative	graman	gramum

Descendants

• Middle English: grame, grome
  • English: grame

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃mɐ/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: gra‧ma

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin grāmĭna, plural of grāmen. Compare Galician grama, Spanish grama.

Noun

grama f (plural gramas)

1. grass

Related terms

• gramado

See also

• erva
• relva f

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”), a semantic calque of Latin scripulum.

Noun

1. gram (unit of mass)

Related terms

• micrograma
• quilograma

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin grāmĭna, plural of grāmen. Compare Portuguese grama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾama/ [ˈɡɾa.ma]
• Hyphenation: gra‧ma

Noun

grama f (uncountable)

1. grass (mostly varieties intended for cattle fodder)
2. (Caribbean, Guatemala, El Salvador) lawn

Derived terms

• cortagrama (“lawnmower”) (El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela)
• cortadora de grama (“lawnmower”) (El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico)

See also

• hierba

Further reading

• “grama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014