French

Verb

grandis

1. first-person singular present indicative of grandir
2. second-person singular present indicative of grandir
3. first-person singular past historic of grandir
4. second-person singular past historic of grandir
5. second-person singular imperative of grandir

Participle

grandis

1. masculine plural of the past participle of grandir

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰrew- ‎(“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with great, Proto-Germanic *grautaz ‎(“big in size, coarse, coarse grained”), Scots great ‎(“coarse in grain or texture, thick, great”), West Frisian grut ‎(“large, great”), Dutch groot ‎(“large, stour”), German groß ‎(“large”), Old English grēot ‎(“earth, sand, grit”), Albanian ngre ‎(“I lift, heave, stand, elevate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.dis/, [ˈɡran.dɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.dis/

Adjective

grandis m, f ‎(neuter grande); third declension

1. full-grown, grown up
2. large, great, grand
3. powerful
4. aged, old

Synonyms

• (large): magnus

Antonyms

• (large): parvus

Inflection

Third declension.

• comparative: grandior, superlative: grandissimus

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “grandis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • aged: grandis natu
    
  • much money: pecunia magna, grandis (multum pecuniae)