# grame
## English
### Alternative forms

* gram

### Etymology 1

From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adj), grim.

#### Noun

grame (uncountable)
* (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
* (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
** a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4:
    to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame
** 1548, Smyth & Dame, section 218:Age doth me mvche grame.
** 1872, Rossetti, Staff & Scrip, Poems (ed. 6), 49:
    God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).

#### Verb

grame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)
* (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:enrage, Thesaurus:vex
** 1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235:Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.
* (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
** 1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence, published 1864:The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.

##### Related terms

* gram

### Anagrams

* Mager, Marge, e-gram, gamer, magre, marge, regma

## Galician
### Verb

grame
* inflection of gramar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡra.me/
* Rhymes: -ame
* Hyphenation: grà‧me

### Adjective

grame
* feminine plural of gramo

### Anagrams

* magre, merga

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* graim, garme
* grome (West Midlands)

### Etymology

From Old English grama, from Proto-Germanic *gramô.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡraːm(ə)/
* IPA: /ˈɡramə/ (Early Middle English)
* IPA: /ˈɡrɔːm(ə)/, /ˈɡrɒːm(ə)/ (West Midlands)

### Noun

grame (plural grames)
* rage, anger, hatred, hostility

#### Descendants

* English: grame
* Yola: garr (via garme)

#### References

* “grā̆m(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡrɑ.me/

### Adjective

grame
* inflection of gram:
** strong accusative feminine singular
** strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
** strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
** weak nominative feminine/neuter singular
** weak accusative neuter singular

## Portuguese
### Verb

grame
* inflection of gramar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative