grange
See also: Grange
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɹeɪndʒ/
- Rhymes: -eɪndʒ
Noun
grange (plural granges)
- (archaic) A granary.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (Britain) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse or manor.
- ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 120:
- What tell'st thou me of robbing? / This is Venice. My house is not a grange.
- ~1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I, scene I, line 120:
- (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.
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French
Etymology
From Middle French granche, from Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɑ̃ʒ/
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “grange” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Norman
Etymology
From Old French grange, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum (“grain”).
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Gallic Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grange)
- grange on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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