Noun: grado
Gender: m
Hyphenation: gra‧do
| Singular m | grado |
| Plural m | grados |
Sample Sentences
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El agua suele hervir a cien grados centígrados. (Water usually boils at 100 degrees Celsius.)
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Conocí a mi primera novia en octavo grado. (I met my first girlfriend in 8th grade.)
Nouns inflected like grado
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish grado (“staircase; rank, dignity”), inherited from Latin gradus (“a step, pace; step of a staircase; degree”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). The retention of the -d- is due to the invalidity of the -ao hiatus in Old Spanish that would result from dropping it, compare the retention of -d- and -g- in vado, espárrago, agosto, llaga. Portuguese grau. Doublet of grao. See: Latin Nouns '
gradus', Portuguese Nouns '
grau'.
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