# grange
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

### Noun

grange (plural granges)
* (archaic) A granary.
** 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; 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, line 175:[…] the loose unleter'd Hinds, / When for their teeming Flocks, and granges full / In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan.
* (British) 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, [Act I, scene i], line 120:What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.
* (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.

#### Derived terms

* Grange Court
* Grangegate
* Grange Hill
* Grange Park
* Letham Grange
* Newgrange
* Trimdon Grange
* Woolley Grange

#### Related terms

* granger

### Anagrams

* Gagner, Ganger, ganger, nagger

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* gra͟nzhe, gro͟nzhe, gra͟nze (Bressan)
* grangi (Old Dauphinois)
* grangi (Old Fribourgeois)
** grandze (Fribourgeois)
* graingi (Old Lyonnais)
* grandze (Valdôtain)

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grānica.

### Noun

grange f (plural granges) (ORB, broad)
* barn

### References

* grange in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* grange in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

### Further information

* ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 664: “grange” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*granĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 225

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: grange

### Noun

grange f (plural granges)
* a barn
    Synonym: magasin (Louisiana)

#### Derived terms

* engranger

#### Related terms

* grain
* granger
* grenier

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* gagner

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡran.d͡ʒe/
* Rhymes: -andʒe
* Hyphenation: gràn‧ge

### Noun

grange f
* plural of grangia

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* granche

### Etymology

From Old French grange, granche.

### Noun

grange f (plural granges)
* granary (grain store)

#### Descendants

* French: grange

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* granche

### Etymology

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

### Noun

grange f (plural granges)
* (Jersey) barn

## Old French
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *grānica.

### Noun

grange oblique singular, f (oblique plural granges, nominative singular grange, nominative plural granges)
* granary
* barn
* grange; small farm

#### Derived terms

* grangier

#### Related terms

* grain

#### Descendants

* 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 Galician-Portuguese: grangia
** Galician: granxa, graña
** Portuguese: granja
* → Old Spanish: granja
** Spanish: granja

### References

* 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, volume 4: G H I, page 225