grandis

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

grandis

1. inflection of grandir:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second-person singular past historic
   3. second-person singular imperative

grandis m pl

1. masculine plural of grandi

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.

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

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

Third-declension two-termination adjective, with locative.

• 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

• “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, 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