grano

Borrowed from Italian grano, Spanish grano, Portuguese grão.

grano (plural grani)

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

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

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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

• grana (“grain”)
• granaglie (“corn (seeds of cereals for food use)”)
• granaio (“granary, barn”)
• graniglia (“grit”)
• granulo (“granule”)

• cereale

• argon, ragno, rango, rogna

grānō

1. dative singular of grānum
2. ablative singular of grānum

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.nɔ/

grano

1. impersonal past of grać

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾano/

From Old Spanish grano, from Latin grānum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm.

grano m (plural granos)

1. grain (the seed of 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 (single particle of a substance)

   un grano de arena ― a grain of sand

4. pimple, blackhead (inflamed spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus)

   Estoy tan estresada que me salen granos.

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

5. point (the focus of a conversation)
6. (photography) grain (visual texture in processed photographic film)
7. grain (linear texture of a material or surface)

• granel (“bulk”)
• granero (“granary; barn”)
• granado
• granada
• granar
• granizo

grano

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of granar.

• “grano” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.