grange

See also: Grange and Grangé

English

Etymology

From Middle English graunge, borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

Noun

grange (plural granges)

1. (archaic) A granary.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, line 175:

     […] the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.

2. (British) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 120:

     What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.

3. (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.

Derived terms

• Grange Court
• Grange Hill
• Trimdon Grange
• Woolley Grange

Related terms

• granger

Anagrams

• Gagner, Ganger, ganger, nagger

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• gra͟nzhe, gro͟nzhe, gra͟nze (Bressan)
• grandze (Fribourgeois)
• grangi, graingi (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grānica.

Noun

grange f (plural granges) (ORB large)

1. barn

References

• grange in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• grange in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*granĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 225

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French grange, from Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/

• Audio:

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Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. a barn

Derived terms

• engranger

Related terms

• grain
• granger
• grenier

Further reading

• “grange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• gagner

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -andʒe
• Hyphenation: gràn‧ge

Noun

grange f

1. plural of grangia

Middle French

Alternative forms

• granche

Etymology

From Old French grange, granche.

Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. granary (grain store)

Descendants

• French: grange

Norman

Alternative forms

• granche

Etymology

From Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

Noun

grange f (plural granges)

1. (Jersey) barn

Old French

Alternative forms

• graunge, granche, graunche
• greigne, gragne, grainge
• grangre

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grānica.

Noun

grange oblique singular, f (oblique plural granges, nominative singular grange, nominative plural granges)

1. granary
2. barn
3. grange; small farm

Derived terms

• grangier

Related terms

• grain

Descendants

• Middle French: grange, granche
  • French: grange
• Norman: grange, granche
• Walloon: gregne

Borrowings:

• → Italian: grangia
• → Middle English: graunge, grange, gronge
  • English: grange
  • Yola: grenge
• → Old Catalan: granja
  • Catalan: granja
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: grangia
  • Galician: granxa, graña
  • Portuguese: granja
• → Old Spanish: granja
  • Spanish: granja

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grange)
• grange_1 on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*granĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 225