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English
Etymology
Italian grandezza
Pronunciation
Noun
grandezza (uncountable)
- Grandeur, greatness, magnificence.
1907, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, published 1918:Society went on excellently well without houses, or carriages, or jewels, or toilettes, or pavements, or shops, or grandezza of any sort; and the market was excellent as well as cheap.
- Stateliness, dignity.
- Magnanimity.
Italian
Etymology
From grande + -ezza. Compare Sicilian grannizza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡranˈdet.t͡sa/
- Rhymes: -ettsa
- Hyphenation: gran‧déz‧za
Noun
grandezza f (plural grandezze)
- size
- magnitude (astronomy)
- quantity (maths)
- greatness
- grandeur
Descendants
Further reading
- grandezza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana