grando

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin grandis. Compare also Venetan grando.

Adjective

grando

1. big, large
2. great

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *greh₃d-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.doː/, [ˈɡrän̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.do/, [ˈɡrän̪d̪o]

Noun

grandō f (genitive grandinis); third declension

1. hail, hailstorm
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.120:

     “Hīs ego nigrantem commixtā grandine nimbum, [...].”

     “To [the hunting party of Dido and Aeneas], I, [Juno, will send] a dark stormcloud mixed with hail, [...].”

   • 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).)

2. (figuratively) great quantity, multitude

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	grandō	grandinēs
genitive	grandinis	grandinum
dative	grandinī	grandinibus
accusative	grandinem	grandinēs
ablative	grandine	grandinibus
vocative	grandō	grandinēs

Derived terms

• grandinat
• grandineus
• grandinōsus

Descendants

• 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

• “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.