grao

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See also: grão, graõ, and graó

English

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Etymology

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From Portuguese grão (grain), from Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and granum.

Noun

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grao (plural graos)

  1. (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 4.6 mm.
  2. (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.

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Anagrams

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈɡɾao/ [ˈɡɾɑ.ʊ]
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /ˈħɾao/ [ˈħɾɑ.ʊ]

Etymology 1

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From Latin gradus.

Noun

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grao m (plural graos)

  1. degree (of temperature)
  2. (genealogy) degree
    • 1274, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (ed.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 391:
      E se alguun ome uel moler contra esta mýa vendicon a deromper veer, assy de mýa parte como doutra agia a mýa maldiçon ata setimo grao e a yra de Deus pro sempre
      If any man or woman against this my selling comes, for breaking it, from my part as well as other's, have my curse until the seventh degree and the wrath of God forever
  3. academic degree
  4. degree (of angle measure)
  5. (mathematics) degree of a polynomial

Etymology 2

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Noun

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grao m (plural graos)

  1. Alternative form of gran (grain)

References

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Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *grāu, see also Old English græġ, Old Norse grár.

Adjective

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grāo

  1. grey

Descendants

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  • Middle High German: grā
    • Alemannic German: graaw
    • Bavarian: grau
      Gottscheerish: grūb
    • Central Franconian:
      Hunsrik: grau
      Luxembourgish: gro
    • East Central German:
      Vilamovian: graoj
    • East Franconian:
    • German: grau
    • Rhine Franconian:
      Frankfurterisch: IPA [kʀoː], (newer, from about 1925) [kʀau]
      Pennsylvania German: gro
    • Yiddish: גראָ (gro), גרוי (groy)

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *grāu, see also Old English græġ, Old Norse grár.

Adjective

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grāo

  1. grey

Declension

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Portuguese

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Noun

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grao m (plural graos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of grau.
  2. Obsolete spelling of grão.

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Catalan grau (step, stair). Doublet of grado.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɾao/ [ˈɡɾa.o]
  • Rhymes: -ao
  • Syllabification: gra‧o

Noun

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grao m (plural graos)

  1. shore, strand

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