grandis

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

grandis

  1. inflection of grandir:
    1. first/second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second-person singular past historic
    3. second-person singular imperative

Participle

grandis m pl

  1. masculine plural of grandi

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *grandis, of unclear origin.

    Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to grind”), and connected to Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”) (whence English great). A different etymology, favored by Pokorny, derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrendʰ- (“to swell”), and connects the word to Ancient Greek βρένθος (brénthos, “arrogance”) and Proto-Slavic *grǫ̑dь (“breast”).

    However, De Vaan rejects the latter (and doesn't mention the former) due to phonetic difficulties and the wide semantic gap between "breast-pride" and "breast-large".

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    grandis (neuter grande, comparative grandior, superlative grandissimus, adverb grandē or granditer); third-declension two-termination adjective

    1. full-grown, grown up
    2. large, great, grand, lofty, big
      Synonym: magnus
      Antonym: parvus
    3. powerful
    4. aged, old

    Declension

    Third-declension two-termination adjective, with locative.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
    nominative grandis grande grandēs grandia
    genitive grandis grandium
    dative grandī grandibus
    accusative grandem grande grandēs
    grandīs     		grandia
    ablative grandī grandibus
    vocative grandis grande grandēs grandia
    locative grandī grandibus

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • “grandis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “grandis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • grandis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • aged: grandis natu
      • much money: pecunia magna, grandis (multum pecuniae)
    • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 485
    • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 270
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