grandis Latin · revision 4772

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɡran.dɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɡran.dis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''grandis''' (neuter grande, comparative grandior, superlative grandissimus, adverb grande or granditer); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unclear.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Walde–Hofmann and Pokorny compared [[grc|βρένθος|tr=brénthos|t=pride]] and [[cu|грѫдь|tr=grǫdĭ|t=breast]], and the Oxford Latin Dictionary and Georges follow the Greek comparison, but de Vaan finds both the form and the meaning unconvincing.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Wiktionary reports a traditional link with [[gem-pro|*grautaz|t=big, coarse]], the source of [[en|great]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus speaks of a grown-up daughter.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense was grown up, full-grown, of persons, and ''grandis nātū'' was “old”.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS) It was big or tall of living things and objects, as Varro's largest ears of corn, great in amount, as a large sum of money, intense, and important or weighty.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Of style it meant grand, lofty or exalted.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein ranks it with [[magnus]] and [[amplus]], becoming greatness, as against [[ingēns]] and [[vastus]].^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also strong, vehement, harsh, and of persons noble.^(MLW) It survives as [[it|grande]], [[fr|grand]], [[es|grande]] and [[pt|grande]].^(Wiktionary) English ''grand'' is recorded in the late 14th century as “large”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a grown-up girl.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of the largest ears of corn.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''grand'' is recorded, through Anglo-French ''graunt''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Grown up, full-grown, ''grandis nātū'', elderly.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

+ # Big, large, tall.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Great (in amount); ample.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Intense, extreme.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Important, weighty.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of style, [[m|en|grand]], lofty.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[grandiculus]]

+ * [[grandifer]]

+ * [[grandificus]]

+ * [[grandiloquus]]

+ * [[grandiō]]

+ * [[grandisonus]]

+ * [[granditās]]

+ * [[grandiusculus]]

+ * [[pergrandis]]

+ * [[praegrandis]]

+ * [[subgrandis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|grand]]

+ * [[en|great]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}