grame

See also: gräme

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to grim.

Alternative forms

• gram

Noun

grame (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.

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2. (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.

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   • c. 1557 (published), Sir Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus?, lines 3 and 4:

     To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).

Alternative forms

• gram

Verb

grame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; be sorry.

Related terms

• gram

Anagrams

• Mager, Marge, e-gram, gamer, marge, regma

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Italian

Adjective

grame f

1. feminine plural of gramo