The corpus record — Latin

granum

granum · n

a grain

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 9 · 5.74/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 2 · 3.59/10k
Naturalis Historia 107 · 2.7/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 6 · 2.65/10k
De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Ad Nationes 3 · 2.01/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 13 · 1.65/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

grānum — Lewis & Short

grānum, i, n.root gar-; Sanscr. ǵaramí, wear away; whence Gr. ge/rwn, grau=s; cf. gu=ris, fine flour,

I a grain, seed, small kernel: tritici, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 52; Cic. Div. 1, 36, 78; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 2; Col. 2, 9, 13: uvae, Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 10; Val. Max. 9, 12, 8 ext.: turis, Plaut. Poen. 2, 3; cf. turea, Ov. F. 4, 410: fici, Cic. de Sen. 15, 52; Plin. 24, 5, 10, § 16: piperis, a pepper-corn, id. 12, 7, 15, § 30; 23, 8, 78, § 150: papaveris, Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 24 et saep.: salis, Plin. 23, 8, 77, § 149: cerae mili magnitudine, id. 22, 24, 55, § 116: marmoreum, marble granules, pounded marble, Pall. 1, 15; Vitr. 7, 3 med.

In the wild

6 of 203 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. granum (scan p. 305; entry #4796).

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