granum
English
Etymology 1
From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of gram, grain, and corn.
Noun
granum (plural grana)
- (biology) A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *grānom from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.num/, [ˈɡräːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.num/, [ˈɡräːnum]
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | grānum | grāna |
| Genitive | grānī | grānōrum |
| Dative | grānō | grānīs |
| Accusative | grānum | grāna |
| Ablative | grānō | grānīs |
| Vocative | grānum | grāna |
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: grãn
- Asturian: granu, grana (from neuter plural)
- Basque: garau
- Catalan: gra
- Corsican: granu
- Dalmatian: grun
- Dutch: graan
- German: Gran
- Irish: gráinne
- Friulian: gran
- Italian: grano
- Ladino: גראנו (grano)
- Occitan: gran
- Old French: grain, grein
- Old Portuguese: grão
- Piedmontese: gran, gran-a
- Romanian: grâu
- Romansch: graun
- Sicilian: granu
- Spanish: grano
References
- “granum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “granum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- granum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- granum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 722
- granum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 1, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2962
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