gram

See also: Gram, grām, gräm, gram., and -gram

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɹæm/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æm
  • Homophone: graham (GenAm)

Etymology 1

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”), a semantic calque of Latin scripulum (cf. scrupulus), erroneously thought to be derived from scribo (“to write”).

Noun

gram (plural grams)

  1. A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

From Portuguese grão. From Latin grānum.[1]

Noun

gram (uncountable)

  1. A leguminous plant grown for its seeds.
  2. (uncountable) The seeds of these plants.

Translations

Etymology 3

Diminutive of grandmother

Noun

gram (plural grams)

  1. grandmother

Etymology 4

Old English, akin to grim. See grama.

Adjective

gram (comparative more gram, superlative most gram)

  1. (obsolete) angry
    • Havelok the Dane
      For he knew, the swike dam, / Euerildel God was him gram.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeəm/, /ˈɡɹæm/

Noun

gram (uncountable)

  1. (US) Misspelling of graham.

References

  1. ↑ Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary. 1976. pp. 566

Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From French gramme.

Pronunciation

Noun

gram m (plural grams)

  1. gram (unit of mass)

Further reading

Czech

Noun

gram m

  1. gram (unit)

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gramr, cognates with the Icelandic gramur (“resentful, irritated”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡram/, [ɡ̊ʁɑmˀ]

Adjective

gram

  1. irate

Inflection

Inflection of gram
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular gram — —2
Neuter singular gramt — —2
Plural gramme — —2
Definite attributive1 gramme — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
  • gram i hu

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γραμμά (grammá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡram/, [ɡ̊ʁɑmˀ]

Noun

gram n (singular definite grammet, plural indefinite gram)

  1. gram (unit of mass)
Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑm
  • IPA(key): /ɣrɑm/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gramme.

Noun

gram n (plural grammen, diminutive grammetje n)

  1. gram (unit of mass)
See also

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch gram (“wrath”).

Adjective

gram (comparative grammer, superlative gramst)

  1. (rare) angry, irate

Etymology 3

Substantivization of the adjective above.

Noun

gram m (uncountable, diminutive grammetje n)

  1. (rare) wrath
See also

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gram, from Proto-Germanic *gramaz.

Adjective

gram

  1. angry
  2. sad, upset

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “gram”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “gram (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gramaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡrɑm/

Adjective

gram

  1. angry, hostile

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡram/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

gram m inan

  1. gram (unit of mass)

Declension

Verb

gram

  1. first-person singular present indicative of grać

Portuguese

Noun

gram m (plural grãos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of grão

Adjective

gram

  1. Obsolete spelling of grão

Romanian

Noun

gram n

  1. gram (unit of mass)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin gramma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡrâm/

Noun

grȁm m (Cyrillic spelling гра̏м)

  1. gram (unit)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Noun

gram n

  1. gram (unit of mass)

Tatar

Noun

gram

  1. gram (unit of mass)

Declension

References

Volapük

Noun

gram (plural grams)

  1. gram

Declension

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