Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grampians

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables: grampians
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Grampian Mountains, a mountain range in the Scottish Highlands.

name

A region in western Victoria, Australia.

name

A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia.

Etymology

Antiquarian revival of Latin Graupius, with the modern spelling resulting from a 15th-century mapmaker's misprinting of u as m. Unknown exact etymology. Breeze (2002) argues that this represents a corrupt form of Proto-Brythonic *krib, from Proto-Celtic *krīkʷā (“trench, furrow, boundary”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: Graupius, *krib, *krīkʷā

Phrases

Northern Grampians Southern Grampians

Frequently Paired Words

Grampian

Questions

What does grampians mean?: The Grampian Mountains, a mountain range in the Scottish Highlands.
Where does grampians come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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