granum

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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granum (plural grana)

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

Etymology 2

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Noun

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granum (plural granums)

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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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grānum n (genitive grānī); second declension

  1. grain, seed, small kernel

Declension

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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

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Descendants

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References

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  • granum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2962