Noun: granum
| Singular | granum |
| Plural | grana; granums |
Sample Sentences
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Each of 'em has a ſev'ral Gin, / To catch Intelligences in. / Some by the Noſe vvith fumes trapan 'em, / As Dunſtan did the Devils Grannum. [1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 175:]
Nouns inflected like granum
septum,
sacrum,
scutum,
signum,
philtrum,
effluvium,
preferendum,
tricennium,
fenestrum,
prooemium,
pseudoperidium,
vomitorium,
gubernium,
protocerebrum,
addendum,
pallium,
pabulum,
refugium,
decorum,
fumigatorium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and grao. See: Latin Nouns '
grānum'.