grossus

Latin

Alternative forms

• crossus, gorsus, grocius, gressus

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin. Not found in Classical Latin. According to Nocentini and Walde, cognate with Old Irish bres and Cornish bras, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷres-. Compare also Old High German grōz (“big, large, thick, coarse, crude”), which undoubtedly conflated with and contributed some of the senses and forms present in Medieval Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡros.sus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡros.sus/,

Adjective

grossus (feminine grossa, neuter grossum, comparative grossior); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) coarse, unrefined
2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) young, green, immature
3. (Medieval Latin) thick, dense

   Synonyms: crēber, spissus

4. (Medieval Latin) fat, large, great

   Synonym: crassus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• grossitūdō

Descendants

Etymology 2

From the above.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡros.sus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡros.sus/,

Noun

grossus m or f (genitive grossī); second declension

1. an unripe fig
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.64.129:

     Cauliculī aut grossī eius quam minūtissimae ad scorpiōnum ictūs ē vīnō bibuntur.

     Its little stalks or the as small as possible unripe figs are drunk from wine for scorpion stings.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• “grossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grossus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• grossus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• grossus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016