# grao
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

grao (plural graos)
* (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of length, equivalent to about 4.6 mm.
* (historical) A traditional short Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.

#### Synonyms

* Portuguese grain, grain (Portuguese contexts)

#### Coordinate terms

* (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)

### Anagrams

* goar, Argo, Goar, rago, Rago, gora, Agro, Gora, agro, Garo, agro-

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾao/ [ˈɡɾɑ.ʊ]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡɾao/ [ˈɡɾɑ.ʊ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħɾao/ [ˈħɾɑ.ʊ]
** Rhymes: -ao
* IPA: /ˈɡɾaw/ [ˈɡɾɑw]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡɾaw/ [ˈɡɾɑw]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħɾaw/ [ˈħɾɑw]
** Rhymes: -aw
* Hyphenation: gra‧o

### Etymology 1

From Latin gradus.

#### Noun

grao m (plural graos)
* degree (of temperature)
* (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
* academic degree
* degree (of angle measure)
* (mathematics) degree of a polynomial

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

grao m (plural graos)
* Alternative form of gran (“grain”)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “grao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “grao”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grao”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “grao”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz.

### Adjective

grāo
* grey

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: grau
** Dutch: grauw, graauw (obsolete)
*** Afrikaans: grou
*** Jersey Dutch: xrāuje, grô
*** Negerhollands: grou

### References

“grāo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

grāo
* grey

#### Descendants

* 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)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

grāo
* grey

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: grāu
** Low German:
*** German Low German: grag, grau
    Plautdietsch: greiw
** → West Frisian: grauw

## Portuguese
### Noun

grao m (plural graos)
* Obsolete spelling of grau.
* Obsolete spelling of grão.

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾao/ [ˈɡɾa.o]
* Rhymes: -ao
* Syllabification: gra‧o

### Noun

grao m (plural graos)
* shore, strand

### Further reading

* “grao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10