grandis

See also: Grandis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃.di/
• Homophones: grandi, grandie, grandies, grandit, grandît

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 the past participle of grandir

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *grandis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to grind”).

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”), from where English great, Scots great (“coarse in grain or texture, thick, great”), West Frisian grut (“large, great”), Dutch groot (“large, stour”), German groß (“large”), Albanian ngre (“I lift, heave, stand, elevate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.dis/, [ˈɡrän̪d̪ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.dis/, [ˈɡrän̪d̪is]

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.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	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

• grandēscō
• grandiculus
• grandiō
• granditās
• granditer

 

Descendants

• Asturian: grande, gran
• →? Basque: handi
• Bourguignon: grand
• Corsican: grande
• Dalmatian: grund, gruond
• Franco-Provençal: grant
• Friulian: grant
• Istriot: grando
• Italian: grande
• Old Occitan: gran
  • Occitan: gran
• Old French: grant
  • Middle French: grand
    • French: grand
  • Norman: grand
  • Picard: grand
  • → English: grand
• Old Portuguese: grande, gran, grand
  • Fala: grandi
  • Galician: grande
  • Portuguese: grande
• Old Spanish: grant, grand
  • Spanish: grande, gran
• Romansch: grond
• Sardinian: grande, grandu, granne
• Sicilian: granni
• Venetian: gran, grando

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • aged: grandis natu
    
  • much money: pecunia magna, grandis (multum pecuniae)