different between grate vs grame

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?t, IPA^(key): /??e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: great

Etymology 1

From Middle English grate, from a Medieval Latin gr?ta, from a Latin word for a hurdle; or Italian grata, from Latin cratis.

Noun

grate (plural grates)

1. a horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
2. a frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning

Synonyms

• grill

Translations

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

1. (transitive) to furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars

Etymology 2

From Middle English graten, from Old French grater (“to scrape”) ( > French gratter), from Frankish *kratt?n, from Proto-Germanic *kratt?n?. Cognate with Old High German krazzon ( > German kratzen (“to scrawl”) > Danish kradse), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”) and Danish kratte.

Verb

grate (third-person singular simple present grates, present participle grating, simple past and past participle grated)

1. (transitive, cooking) to shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater

2. (intransitive) to make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something
   • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.

3. (by extension, intransitive) to get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy

4. (by extension, transitive) to annoy
   • 2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon'

     one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin gr?tus (“agreeable”).

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

1. (obsolete) serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Etymology 4

Adjective

grate (comparative more grate, superlative most grate)

1. Obsolete spelling of great
   • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise

     He promisd her a grate reward

References

Anagrams

• 'Gater, Gater, Greta, ergat-, great, great-, retag, targe, terga

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rate/

Adjective

grate f

1. feminine plural of grato

Anagrams

• terga

Latin

Etymology

From gr?tus (“agreeable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ra?.te?/, [??rä?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??ra.te/, [??r??t??]

Adverb

gr?t? (comparative gr?tius, superlative gr?tissim?)

1. gladly, willingly
2. gratefully, thankfully

Related terms

References

• grate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English grot.

Noun

grate

1. a groat

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• gram

Etymology 1

From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adj), grim.

Noun

grame (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
2. (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
   • 1548, Smyth & Dame, 218:

     Age doth me mvche grame.

   • c. 1557 (published), Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus?, lines 3 and 4:

     To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame.

   • 1872, Rossetti, Staff & Scrip, Poems (ed. 6), 49:

     God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjan? (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).

Verb

grame (third-person singular simple present grames, present participle graming, simple past and past participle gramed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
   • 1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235:

     Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail.

     For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
   • 1526, Skelton, Magnyf. (1864):

     The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.

Related terms

• gram

Anagrams

• Mager, Marge, e-gram, gamer, marge, regma

Italian

Adjective

grame f

1. feminine plural of gramo