grau

From Latin gradus.

grau m (plural graos)

1. grade, degree
2. degree (of temperature, pressure, angle)
3. degree (award)
4. year, form (of school)

From Middle High German grā, from Old High German grāo, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu. Cognate with German grau.

• IPA^(key): /ɡ̊raʊ̯/

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grau

1. grey

Inherited from Latin gradus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈɡɾaw]

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• Rhymes: -aw

grau m (plural graus)

1. degree, level (an individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values)
   • 2020 December 12, David Bueno, “10 coses que encara no sabem del cervell [10 things we still don't know about the brain]”, in Ara‎:

     Tots els animals amb cervell tenen un cert grau de consciència.

     All animals with brains have a certain degree of consciousness.

2. degree, extent (the amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity)
3. (education) grade, year, form (a level of education)
4. (education) degree (a stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study)
5. (physics) degree (a unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales)
6. (geometry) degree (a unit of measurement of angle)

   fer un gir de 180 graus ― to do a 180 (literally, “to make a turn of 180 degrees”)

• postgrau

• gradual
• graduar

• “grau” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grau”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “grau” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle High German grā, from Old High German grāo, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu. Compare English gray, grey.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁaʊ̯/

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• Hyphenation: grau
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯

grau (strong nominative masculine singular grauer, comparative grauer, superlative am grauesten or am grausten)

1. grey, gray

   Synonym: (regional, fairly rare) gries

• Grau
• grauen
• gräulich

• “grau” in Duden online
• “grau” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Middle Low German grāu, from Old Saxon grao. Cognate to German grau, Dutch grauw.

grau (comparative grauer, superlative graust)

1. grey

• gries
• graag

From Middle High German grā, from Old High German grāo.

• IPA^(key): /kraʊ̯/

grau (comparative grauer, superlative grauest)

1. grey, gray

   Meer hon drei graue Katze.

   We have three grey cats.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• grao (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese grao, graao, from Latin gradus (“step, grade, degree”).

• Rhymes: -aw
• Homophone: gral (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: grau

grau m (plural graus)

1. degree, a unit of temperature, now typically using the Celsius scale

   A água congela a zero graus centígrados.

   Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius.

2. degree, a certificate of academic accomplishment conferred by a college or university
3. (mathematics) degree, a unit of angular measure
4. (mathematics) degree, the highest exponent within a polynomial expression

• (unit of angular measure): légua (¹⁄₁₈, ¹⁄₂₀, or ¹⁄₂₅ equatorial degree)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡraɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡrai̯/

grau

1. Soft mutation of crau.