grandir French · revision 16984

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1280, Adenet le Roi, Cléomades|origins=la grandis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''grandir'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|fr|grand|-ir]].^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005) Littré instead derived it from [[la|grandiō|t=to make great]], and compares [[pro|grandir]] and [[it|grandire]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Adenet le Roi's ''Cléomades'' (about 1280) uses it intransitively for “to become bigger”: ''Adés aloit en grandissant la feste'' (“the feast kept growing”).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) The Grand Robert and the Petit Robert date it about 1260,^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007) and Bloch and Wartburg to the 11th century.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The transitive sense “to make great” is in Georges Chastellain at the end of the 15th century, of a noble house that the duke had ''tant grandie''.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873) The sense “to grow in intensity or importance” is in Chateaubriand (before 1848),^(GLLF 1989) and the moral sense, to grow in wisdom or virtue, in Balzac (1830); ''grandir en sagesse'' is recorded by Littré in 1866.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1280 – Intransitive ''grandir'', in Adenet le Roi.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 15th century – Transitive “to make great”, in Chastellain.^(TLFi)

+ * 1694 – Recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1830 – Of moral growth, in Balzac.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * Before 1848 – “To grow in intensity”, in Chateaubriand.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To [[m|en|grow]], to get bigger or taller: ''Il a grandi de cinq centimètres.''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To grow up.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To increase in intensity or importance: ''L'obscurité grandit.''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(intransitive, figurative)'' To grow morally: ''grandir en sagesse''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To make greater; to [[m|en|magnify]], make look bigger or nobler.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[agrandir]]

+ * [[agrandissement]]

+ * [[grand]]

+ * [[grandissant]]

+ * [[grandeur]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}