grande

Borrowed from Italian grande. See grand.

grande (not comparable)

1. (chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces.

• Gander, Garden, danger, gander, garden, graned, nadger, ranged

• gran (apocopic, before a singular noun)

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grande (epicene, plural grandes)

1. large, big

• pequeñu

• grandeza
• grandura

From Latin grandis, grandem (“large, great”).

grande

1. big

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃d/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

grande

1. feminine singular of grand

• grande dame

• danger
• de rang

From Old Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

grande m or f (plural grandes)

1. large

• enorme
• groso

grande (comparative major, superlative le major or le maxime)

1. big, large
2. great

• (big): parve

From Latin grandem, accusative form of grandis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡran.de/, [ˈɡr̺än̪d̪e̞]

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• Hyphenation: gràn‧de

grande m or f (masculine and feminine plural grandi, comparative più grande or maggiore, superlative grandissimo or massimo or sommo)

1. (size) big
2. (quantity) large
3. (height) tall
4. (width) wide, broad
5. (length) long
6. (importance) great

• The apocopic form gran may be used before singular nouns.

grande m or f (plural grandi)

1. an adult or grownup
2. a great or influential person

grande m (plural grandi)

1. grandee

• piccolo
• piccino

From Latin grandis.

grande ? (Latin spelling)

1. big

grande m (Latin spelling)

1. adult

From grandis (“large, great”).

grandē (comparative grandius, superlative grandissimē)

1. greatly
2. (poetic) loudly, aloud

• grandifer
• grandis
• granditās
• granditer

• grande in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grande in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grande in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a weighty example, precedent: exemplum magnum, grande
    
  • elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
    
  • exorbitant rate of interest: fenus iniquissimum, grande, grave
    
  • to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
    
• grande in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

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grande

1. feminine singular of grànd, grand

• grant ('grande' steadily replaces 'grant' during the Old French period)

grande

1. nominative feminine singular of grant
   • late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 354 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, lines 67-70:

     La nef ert fort e belle e grande,
     bone cum cele k'ert markande.
     De plusurs mers chargee esteit,
     en Engleterre curre devait.

     The ship was strong and beautiful and big,
     good like a merchant's ship
     loaded with lots of different type of merchandise
     ready to set sail to England.

2. oblique feminine singular of grant

• grand
• gran

From Latin grandis, grandem.

grande

1. big, great
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 232: A bõa dona por que eu trobava (facsimile)

     […] por coita grande que ſoffri

     […] because of the great pain I suffered

• Fala: grandi
• Galician: grande
• Portuguese: grande

• grãde (obsolete, abbreviation)

From Old Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, of uncertain origin.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃.dɨ/, /ˈɡɾɐ̃d/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾɐ̃.de/

grande m or f (plural grandes, comparable)

1. large; great; big (of great size or extent)

   Este livro é grande.

   This book is big.

   Este livro é maior do que aquele.

   This book is bigger than that one.

2. large; big; numerous (numerically large)

   Tua família é muito grande.

   Your family is very large.

3. (preceding nouns) great (of great importance)

   Os grandes reis da antiguidade.

   The great kings of antiquity.

4. (preceding nouns) great; magnanimous (noble and generous in spirit)

   Artur foi um grande rei.

   Arthur was a great king.

5. grown-up; mature

   Já és grande, podes trabalhar.

   You’re already grown-up, you can work.

6. (followed by a city’s name) the metropolitan area of, greater

   Moro na grande Londres.

   I live in the metropolis of London.

   Grande Manchester é uma região metropolitana no noroeste da Inglaterra.

   Greater Manchester is a metropolitan area in the north-west of England.

• Comparative: maior
• Superlative: máximo (poetic), o maior
• Synthetic superlative: grandíssimo
• Augmentative: grandão, grandalhão
• Diminutive: grandinho, grandote

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:grande.

• (of great size): see Thesaurus:grande
• (numerous): numeroso
• (magnanimous): magnânimo
• (grown-up): crescido, maduro

• (of great size): pequeno, see Thesaurus:grande

• infinitamente grande

• grandeza
• grandioso

grande m, f (plural grandes)

1. (Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone

• chefe, amigo

• gran (preceding a singular noun)

From Latin grandis, grandem (“large, great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾande/, [ˈɡɾãn̪d̪e]

grande (plural grandes) superlative: grandísimo

1. (after the noun or predicatively) big, large
2. (before a plural noun) great
3. (about human age) aged, old

   Mi papá ya es muy grande para hacer eso. ― My dad is now a bit old to do that.

• When used before and in the same noun phrase as the modified singular noun, the apocopic form gran (“great”) is used instead of grande.

• (size): voluminoso, amplio (for cloth, shoe, place)
• (greatness): grandioso
• (aged): viejo, anciano

• (size): pequeño, chico
• (greatness): irrelevante
• (aged): joven, pequeño, chico

grande m (plural grandes)

1. grandee

• → English: grandee
• → German: Grande

• “grande” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.