English
grogram
Grogram comes from French gros-grain ‘coarse grain, a strong fabric’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgros-grain‘coarse grain, a strong fabric’
- Englishearliest quotation 1598grogram
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgros-grain‘coarse grain, a strong fabric’
- Englishearliest quotation 1598grogram
Earliest quotation: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]: “Tell him, if he will, / He ſhall ha'…”
A compound of gros ‘coarse’ + grain ‘grain’
Latin grossus
Old French gros ‘swollen, pregnant’
French gros ‘coarse’
Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm ‘grain’
Latin grānum ‘grain, seed, small kernel’
Old French grain ‘grain’
French grain ‘grain’
The story
The word is a doublet of grosgrain which was borrowed later.
Every English word from French gros-grain
Today it means
noun A strong, rough fabric made up of a mixture of silk, and mohair or wool.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gros-grain / grogram