grando
Istriot edit
Etymology edit
From Latin grandis. Compare also Venetian grando.
Adjective edit
grando
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *greh₃d-.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡran.doː/, [ˈɡrän̪d̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡran.do/, [ˈɡrän̪d̪o]
Noun edit
grandō f (genitive grandinis); third declension
- hail, hailstorm
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.322:
- ‘flōrēbant segetēs; grandine laesa seges’
- “The crops were blooming; the crop was harmed by hail.”
(The poetic voice is that of Flora (mythology).)
- “The crops were blooming; the crop was harmed by hail.”
- ‘flōrēbant segetēs; grandine laesa seges’
- (figuratively) great quantity, multitude
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | grandō | grandinēs |
Genitive | grandinis | grandinum |
Dative | grandinī | grandinibus |
Accusative | grandinem | grandinēs |
Ablative | grandine | grandinibus |
Vocative | grandō | grandinēs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: grãndini, grindinã
- Asturian: granizu (possibly, unlikely)
- Galician: graínzo (possibly, unlikely)
- Italian: grandine
- Occitan: granissa (possibly, unlikely)
- Portuguese: granizo (through Spanish)
- Romanian: grindină
- Romansch: granella (possibly), garniala, garneala, garnela
- Sardinian: gràndhile, gràndhine, gràndili
- Sicilian: grànnula
- Spanish: granizo (possibly, unlikely; if so, influenced by 'grano' and '-izo')
References edit
- “grando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “grando”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- grando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.