grame
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 *gʰrem- (“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)
- (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
- (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
- a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4:
- to save the from the Blame
of all my greffe & grame
- to save the from the Blame
- 1548, Smyth & Dame, 218:
- Age doth me mvche 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.
- a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4:
Etymology 2
From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“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)
- (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.
- 1888, Henry Macaulay Fitzgibbon, Early English and Scottish Poetry, 1250-1600, page 235:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
- 1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence (1864):
- The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.
- 1526, John Skelton, Magnyfycence (1864):
Related terms
- gram
Anagrams
- Mager, Marge, e-gram, gamer, magre, marge, regma
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡra.me/
- Rhymes: -ame
- Hyphenation: grà‧me
Adjective
grame
- feminine plural of gramo
Anagrams
- magre, merga