grange

From Middle English graunge, borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

grange (plural granges)

1. (archaic) A granary.
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837, line 175:

     […] the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.

2. (Britain) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], line 120:

     What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.

3. (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.

• granger

• Gagner, Ganger, ganger, nagger

From Middle French grange, from Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/

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grange f (plural granges)

1. a barn

• engranger

• grain
• granger
• grenier

• “grange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gagner

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -andʒe
• Hyphenation: gràn‧ge

grange f

1. plural of grangia

• granche

From Old French grange, granche.

grange f (plural granges)

1. granary (grain store)

• French: grange

• granche

From Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

grange f (plural granges)

1. (Jersey) barn

• graunge, granche, graunche
• greigne, gragne, grainge
• grangre

From Vulgar Latin *grānica.

grange f (oblique plural granges, nominative singular grange, nominative plural granges)

1. granary
2. barn
3. grange; small farm

• grangier

• grain

• Middle French: grange, granche
  • French: grange
• Norman: grange, granche
• Walloon: gregne

Borrowings:

• → Italian: grangia
• → Middle English: graunge, grange, gronge
  • English: grange
  • Yola: grenge
• → Old Catalan: granja
  • Catalan: granja
• → Old Portuguese: grangia
  • Galician: granxa, graña
  • Portuguese: granja
• → Old Spanish: granja
  • Spanish: granja

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grange)
• grange_1 on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*granĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 225