gramo

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gramo, from French gramme.

Noun

gramo

1. gram

Cimbrian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “gem-pro *gramaz?”)

Adjective

gramo

1. (Sette Comuni) penitent, regretful

   Ich pin gramo haban gatant des. ― I regret doing this. (literally, “I am regretful, having done this.”)

References

• “gramo” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Esperanto

Etymology

A calque of French gramme.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡramo/
• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: gra‧mo

Noun

gramo (accusative singular gramon, plural gramoj, accusative plural gramojn)

1. gram

Galician

Etymology 1

A calque of French gramme.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gra‧mo

Noun

gramo m (plural gramos)

1. gram

Etymology 2

Verb

gramo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gramar

Ido

Etymology

A calque of French gramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡramo/

Noun

gramo (plural grami)

1. gram

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain, related to Old French graim, grain (“sorrowful, sad, sorry”) (see chagrin), Cimbrian gramo, Old High German gram (“angry”) and Middle English gram (“angry”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gramaz (“furious, hostile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.mo/
• Rhymes: -amo
• Hyphenation: grà‧mo

Adjective

gramo (feminine grama, masculine plural grami, feminine plural grame) (obsolete, Lombardy)

1. wretched; needy, poor
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame ¶ sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza, ¶ e molte genti fé già viver grame,

     And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings seemed to be laden in her meagreness, ⁠and many folk has caused to live forlorn!

2. desirous

   (Can we add an example for this sense? )

Anagrams

• groma, magro

Ladino

Etymology

A calque of French gramme

Noun

gramo m (plural gramos)

1. gram

Portuguese

Verb

gramo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gramar

Spanish

Etymology

A calque of French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾamo/ [ˈɡɾa.mo]
• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: gra‧mo

Noun

gramo m (plural gramos)

1. gram
   • 2022 June 3, Sandee LaMotte, “El efecto 'Benjamin Button': científicos logran revertir el envejecimiento en ratones. El objetivo es hacer lo mismo con los humanos”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Sinclair también toma 1 gramo de NMN, o mononucleótido de nicotinamida, que en el cuerpo se convierte en NAD+, o dinucleótido de nicotinamida y adenina.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Bikol Central: gramo
• Tagalog: gramo

Further reading

• “gramo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gramo, from French gramme.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾamo/ [ˈɡɾaː.mo]
• Rhymes: -amo
• Syllabification: gra‧mo

Noun

gramo (Baybayin spelling ᜄ᜔ᜇᜋᜓ)

1. gram

Related terms

• kilogramo