grando

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin grandis. Compare also Venetan grando.

Adjective

grando

big, large
great

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *greh₃d-. Cognate with Old Armenian կարկուտ (karkut, “hail”), Old Church Slavonic градъ (gradŭ, “hail”), Sanskrit ह्रादुनि (hrādúni, “hail”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡran.doː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡran̪.d̪o]

Noun

grandō f (genitive grandinis); third declension

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).)
(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

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.