grano

From Spanish grano (“grain, 1/9216 Spanish pound”), from Latin grānus (“grain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Doublet of grain.

grano (plural granos)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg.

• Spanish grain, grain (Spanish contexts)

• (unit of mass): tomin (12 granos), escrupulo (24 granos), adarme (36 granos), ochava (72 granos), castellano (96 granos), onza (576 granos), libra (9,216 granos)

• nagor, angor, organ, rango, groan, rag on, Goran, Organ, Ongar, Angor, Agron, argon, Garon, Rogan, Ragon, orang, Ronga

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɡɾa.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.no]

grano

1. first-person singular present indicative of granar

Inherited from Spanish grano (“grain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾano/, [ˈɡɾa.no]
• Hyphenation: gra‧no

grano

1. grain

Clipping of granola.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.no/

grano (plural granos)

1. (informal, Canada) granola (eating healthy food, supporting the protection of the environment etc.)
   • 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme, →ISBN, page 53:

     Elles étaient toutes superbes, chacune dans un style différent. J'ai engagé des preppies, des granos, des gothiques, des alternos, des baveuses et des discrètes, des intellos et des skateuses, des pops, des rocks, des punks, des trouées, des tatouées, des campagnardes, des banlieusardes et des urbaines, des filles de bars, des filles de raves, des filles de rêves.

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   • 2018 August 11, “Être grano, c’est quoi ?”, in L'Express‎^[1], retrieved 16 December 2021:

     On tombe aussi sur beaucoup de sites un peu louches et de forums, sur lesquels les internautes se défendent bec et ongles de ne pas être grano. On propose même sur le site de IGA une recette de végé-pâté «pas trop grano».

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Borrowed from Italian grano, Spanish grano, Portuguese grão.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrano/

grano (plural grani)

1. grain (a very small, hard mass; particles or layers in a material)

Inherited from Latin grānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.no/

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• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: grà‧no

grano m (plural grani)

1. wheat, corn

   Synonym: frumento

2. grain (of cereal, or small piece of something)
3. bead (of the rosary)
4. peppercorn

   Synonym: grano di pepe

5. money
6. pin

• cereale

• Ragno, argon, ragno, rango, rogna

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.no]

grānō

1. dative/ablative singular of grānum

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *granō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.noː] (anachronistic)
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.no]

granō m (genitive granōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin, non-literary, Germanic) moustache
   • ca. 785, anonymous, Lex Frisionum 17:

     Si granones praecisi fuerint, ter IIII solidis componatur.

     If [someone's] moustache is cut off, it [the crime] shall be paid back with four solidi three times.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -anɔ
• Syllabification: gra‧no

grano

1. impersonal past of grać

grano

1. first-person singular present indicative of granar

grano (Cyrillic spelling грано)

1. vocative singular of grana

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾano/ [ˈɡɾa.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: gra‧no

Inherited from Old Spanish grano, from Latin grānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Cognate with Galician gran, Portuguese grão, and Catalan gra.

grano m (plural granos)

1. grain (the seed of various grass food crops)
2. grain, seed, kernel, bean (a single seed of certain crops)

   un grano de arroz ― a grain of rice

   un grano de maíz ― a kernel of corn

3. grain (a single similar particle of various substances)

   un grano de arena ― a grain of sand

4. pimple, blackhead (a blocked skin pore, typically inflamed, painful, and filled with pus)

   Estoy tan estresada que me salen granos.

   I'm so stressed that I'm getting pimples.

5. (figurative) point (the main intent or focus of a conversation)
6. grain (the linear texture of a material or surface, especially wood)
7. (photography) grain (flawed visual texture present in most processed photographic film)
8. (historical) grano, Spanish grain (a traditional small unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg)
9. (historical) grain (any of various traditional units of mass notionally based on the weight of different grains)

• (unit of mass): tomín (12 granos), escrúpulo (24 granos), adarme (36 granos), ochava (72 granos), castellano (96 granos), onza (576 granos), libra (9,216 granos)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grano

1. first-person singular present indicative of granar

• “grano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• argón, rango