graignor

Old French

Alternative forms

• greignor
• gregnor

Etymology

From Latin grandiōrem, the accusative of grandior.

Adjective

graignor (oblique singular, nominative singular graindre)

1. comparative degree of grant: bigger.
   • c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:

     c'onques chevaliers n'ot greignor.

     There has never been a greater knight.

2. superlative degree of grant: biggest.

Descendants

• Middle French: greigneur

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “graignor”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.