grao

From Portuguese grão (“grain”), from Old Galician-Portuguese grão, from Latin grānum. Doublet of grain and grange.

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.

• Portuguese grain, grain (Portuguese contexts)

• (unit of length): ponto (¹⁄₂₄ grao), linha (¹⁄₂ grao), dedo (4 graos), polegada (6 graos)
• (unit of mass): vintem (2+¹⁄₄ graos), quilate (4 graos), escropulo (24 graos), oitava (72 graos), onça (576 graos)

From Latin gradus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾaʊ̯]

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

grao m (plural graos)

1. Alternative form of gran (“grain”)

• “grao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “grao” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “grao” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “grao” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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

grāo

1. grey

• 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)

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

grāo

1. grey

• Middle Low German: grāu
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: grag, grau

      Plautdietsch: greiw

  • → West Frisian: grauw

grao m (plural graos)

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

Borrowed from Catalan grau (“step, stair”).

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

grao m (plural graos)

1. shore, strand

• “grao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014