graine

graine (countable and uncountable, plural graines)

1. Obsolete form of grain.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grāna, neuter plural of grānum reanalysed as a feminine. Compare grain.

graine f (plural graines)

1. seed (fertilized grain)
2. (Quebec, slang) dick, penis

• en prendre de la graine
• graines de paradis
• grainothèque
• mauvaise graine

• égrener
• grainier
• grange
• grenier

• → Russian: гре́на (gréna) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: gren

graine

1. inflection of grainer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “graine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gainer, ignare, ingéra, régnai