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 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", and prefers to regard the word as, along with Basque handi (“big”), borrowed from an earlier Vasconian substrate.

Pronunciation

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

• grandiculus
• granditer
• granditās
• grandiō
• grandēscō

 

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 Galician-Portuguese: grande, gran, grand
  • Fala: grandi
  • Galician: grande
  • Portuguese: grande
• Old Spanish: grant, grand
  • Spanish: 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)
    
• 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