grain
Old French
noun
Definitions
- grain edible part of a cereal plant
Etymology
Inherited from Latin grānum (grain, seed, kernel, a grain).
Origin
Latin
grānum
Gloss
grain, seed, kernel, a grain
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
粒
Emoji
🌾
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- grain English
- *granica Latin
- granarium Latin
- granatus Latin
- grānulum Latin
- grānum Latin
- grano Italian
- graan Dutch, Flemish
- engrain French
- grain French
- grenier French
- égrener French
- *ǵerh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵr̥h₂nóm Proto-Indo-European
- grayned Middle English
- greyn Middle English
- greyne Middle English
- greynen Middle English
- greynyng Middle English
- grone Middle English
- gráinne Irish
- gráinnmhéadracht Irish
- grajno Esperanto
- gra Catalan, Valencian
- grâu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- grăunte Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- grein Middle Dutch
- grão Old Portuguese
- grãn Aromanian
- gãrnuts Aromanian
- gran Friulian
- grano Old Spanish