granum

English

Etymology 1

From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of gram, grain, and corn.

Noun

granum (plural grana)

1. (biology) A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.

Etymology 2

Noun

granum (plural granums)

1. (obsolete, regional) One's grandmother.

Alternative forms

• grannum

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *grānom from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.num/, [ˈɡräːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.num/, [ˈɡräːnum]

Noun

grānum n (genitive grānī); second declension

1. A grain, seed or small kernel.

Declension

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

• grānārium
• grānātim
• grānātum
• grānātus
• grāneus
• grānōsus
• grānulum
• mālogrānātum

 

Related terms

• grānifer

Descendants

• Aromanian: grãn
• Asturian: granu, grana (from neuter plural)
• Basque: garau
• Catalan: gra
• Corsican: granu
• Dalmatian: grun
• Dutch: graan
• German: Gran
  • Irish: gráinne
• Friulian: gran
• Galician: gran
• Italian: grano
• Ladino: גראנו‎ (grano)
• Occitan: gran
• Old French: grain, grein
  • English: grain, grange
  • French: grain
• Piedmontese: gran, gran-a
• Portuguese: grão
• Romanian: grâu
• Romansch: graun
• Sicilian: granu
• Spanish: grano
• Vulgar Latin: *granica (see there for further descendants)

References

• “granum”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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 (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2962