grão
Old Galician-Portuguese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editgrão m (plural grãos)
Descendants
editPortuguese
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: grão
Etymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Cognate with Galician gran, Spanish grano, and Catalan gra.
Noun
editgrão m (plural grãos)
- grain, seed of various grass crops
- grain, similar particles of any substance
- (historical) grao, Portuguese grain, a former small Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 4.6 mm
- (historical) grao, Portuguese grain, a former small Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg
Coordinate terms
edit- (unit of length): ponto (1⁄24 grão), linha (1⁄2 grão), dedo (4 grãos), polegada (6 grãos)
- (unit of mass): vintém (2 1⁄4 grãos), quilate (4 grãos), escrópulo (24 grãos), oitava (72 grãos), onça (576 grãos)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Macanese: grám
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese gran, clipping of grande (“great, big”).
Adjective
editgrão (feminine grã, masculine plural grãos, feminine plural grãs)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “grão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “grão”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “grão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃/1 syllable
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- pt:Grains
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