Etymograph

English

grande

Grande comes from Italian grande ‘adult, grownup’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *grandis.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*grandisreconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrandisas grandem‘full-grown, grown up’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentgrande‘adult, grownup’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1997same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*grandisreconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrandisas grandem‘full-grown, grown up’
  3. Italianc. 1300–presentgrande‘adult, grownup’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1997same form

Earliest quotation: 1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory: “As she went to work the only concern prominent…”

Linked words

through Latin grandis ‘full-grown, grown up’

aggrandizement, 9 more

Another origin of grande

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*grandisreconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrandisas grandem‘large’
  3. Old Spanishc. 950–1500grande‘big’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentsame form‘great, grand’
  5. Englishtodaysame form

Another origin of grande

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*grandisreconstructedearlier origin unknown
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrandisas grandem‘large, great, grand, lofty, big’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400grant‘big, large’
  4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600grand‘big’
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentsame formas grande‘big’
  6. Englishtodaygrande

Today it means

adj Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *grandis / grande

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