Etymology

grange

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Today it means: A granary. Full definition →

Middle English graunge ← Old French grange ← Vulgar Latin *grānica
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgrānum“grain”
  2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*grānica
  3. Old French · derived fromgrange“granary; barn; small farm”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromgraunge
  5. English todaygrange

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

Words from the same roots

Vulgar Latin*grānica all →

Latingrānum all →

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