grandeza

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɐ̃ˈde.zɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɐ̃ˈde.zɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɐ̃ˈde.za/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɐ̃ˈde.zɐ/

• Hyphenation: gran‧de‧za

Noun

grandeza f (plural grandezas)

1. greatness (the quality of being great, big)
2. greatness (the quality of being great, magnanimous, important)
3. (mathematics) magnitude (number assigned to something)

Related terms

• grande

Further reading

• “grandeza”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “grandeza”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From grande +‎ -eza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾanˈdeθa/ [ɡɾãn̪ˈd̪e.θa] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɾanˈdesa/ [ɡɾãn̪ˈd̪e.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eθa (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -esa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: gran‧de‧za

Noun

grandeza f (plural grandezas)

1. grandeur
2. grandeeship

Derived terms

• delirio de grandezas

Related terms

• grande

Further reading

• “grandeza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025