# grande
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian grande. Doublet of grand and grandee.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɹɑndeɪ/, /ˈɡɹændeɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑndeɪ, -ændeɪ

#### Adjective

grande (not comparable)
* (chiefly US) Of a cup of coffee: smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 16 ounces (~ 455 ml).
    Coordinate terms: tall, venti

#### Noun

grande (plural grandes)
* (chiefly US) A grande cup of coffee.
** 1997, J. H. Marks, Conspiracy Theory, Signet, →ISBN, page 148:As she went to work the only concern prominent in her mind was a strong desire for a couple of grandes from Starbucks.
** 1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 287:Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one. Clutching their Starbucks grandes, guarding their garment bags with practiced eyes—how much sympathy could they be expected to muster?
** 1999, Elizabeth Lenhard, Bettypalooza, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 80:“Harrumph,” Daddy said, flipping through the morning’s deliveries – the L.A. Times, the New York Times and two grandes from Starbucks: decaf Colombian for my stressed superior, and a nonfat capp with a double espresso shot for me.

### Etymology 2

From Spanish grande. Doublet of grand.

#### Noun

grande (plural grandes)
* Alternative form of grandee.
** 1847, T[erence] M[cMahon] Hughes, “Hercules Rafferty.—An Asturianillo.—An Irish stew.—A Bottle-Hero.—Don Tito de Chiclana.—O’Gorman.—Perils of love-making in the Peninsula.” (chapter VI), in An Overland Journey to Lisbon at the Close of 1846; with a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and Portugal, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 89:Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:⁠—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!”
** 1912, Tiemen De Vries, Dutch History, Art and Literature for Americans: Lectures Given in the University of Chicago, Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, pages 85–86:When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.
** 1936 November 17, The New York Times Theater Reviews, pages 15–16:With the exception of the vital Otto Woegerer as Juan, a Spanish grande, equally quick to draw his rapier against Hamlet as to appear a mystically presaging friend, the rest of the large cast fills its space with satisfactory competence.
** 1943, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, page 73:339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.
** 1952, German Review, page 19:Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?
** 1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90:Already you’re dressed like a Spanish grande, b’ God!
** 1972, Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld, The Rococo: Eroticism, Wit, and Elegance in European Literature (Pegasus Movements in Literature Series), Pegasus, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 108:The two plays were originally sketched with a French milieu, but after Voltaire’s revolutionary pamphlet Le Droit du seigneur (1762) it seemed safer to invent a Spanish grande and his castle Aguas Frescas—the more alluring to Beaumarchais as he knew the milieu well from his stay of eleven months in Spain.
** 1993, Eva Šormová, editor, Don Juan and Faust in the XXth Century: Theatre Conference, 27.9. - 1.10.1991, Prague, Charles University, →ISBN, page 274:So the attempt to seduce Zerlina freezes not only in the cold and monumental architecture of a black marble environment and in the stiff “overstyled” costuming, but also in the unresolvable, impossible role-conflict of a Spanish Grande trying to reach for something like John Wayne’s sex appeal.
** 1993, Sue Rich, Rawhide and Roses, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 229:From where they were, Hayden thought, it resembled the type of house a Spanish Grande might live in, neat, clean, with gentle arches framing the front portico.
** 1996, Mozart Studien, volume 6, page 277:The essence of the opera’s entire plot is revealed in just 28 measures: in this first musical number here, »a Spanish grande, fallen in love with a young girl, endeavours to seduce her«.
** 2000, P. C. Morantte, Brother to the Wind, New Day Publishers, →ISBN, page 45:Those that you see on Calle Real are owned by a Spanish grande who has a large coconut plantation.
** 2004, Irene Awret, “Part One: Berlin”, in They’ll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist’s Coming of Age in the Third Reich, Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 36:Was it Uncle Richard’s fault that he looked like a Spanish Grande, that women rarely could resist his melancholy brown eyes smoldering with an indefinable something?
** 2007, Koenraad Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545–c. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist Painter, Brepols, →ISBN, page 152:D18. Portrait of a Spanish grande
** 2007, Karina Urbach, editor, European Aristocracies and the Radical Right 1918–1939, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 63:This son, James Fritz-James, was created a Spanish Grande and Duke of Liria by Philip V.
** 2014, Peter de Vos, Confusion (Nothing Is What It Seems; 1), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 5:Gone was the affable behaviour of a loose-living playboy, replaced by the tough manners of a hard-working Chinese with the airs of a Spanish Grande.

### Etymology 3

From French grande, feminine of grand.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɹænd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænd

#### Adjective

grande (comparative more grande, superlative most grande)
* Alternative form of grand
** 1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79:Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.
** 1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, →ISBN, pages 147, 270:A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady. […] In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.
** 1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, →ISBN, page 217:In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.
** 2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 28:THIS GRANDE LADY IS DIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER DEMURE DELIVERIES. DELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING, THE LADY IS DEFINITELY A DIVA.
** 2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 223:That made eight deaths in a matter of a few days—all of them tied inexplicably to this “grande lady” herself—Meadowdale Prison.
** 2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 101:Her silence now had the quality of the comfortable silences between friends, not the half-respectful, half-fearful types of a servant not spoken to by her grande mistress.
** 2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:Annabella Kristina Ramona Toaltz was a grande name for a grande woman.

##### Usage notes

This form, influenced by grande dame, is chiefly used when describing a woman.

##### Related terms

* grande école

### Anagrams

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

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* gran (apocopic, before a singular noun)

### Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾãn̪.d̪e]
* Rhymes: -ande
* Syllabification: gran‧de

### Adjective

grande (epicene, plural grandes)
* large, big
    Antonym: pequeñu

#### Related terms

* grandeza
* grandura

## Corsican
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

grande
* big

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Spanish grande.

#### Noun

grande c (singular definite granden, plural indefinite grander)
* grandee

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Old Danish grannæ, from Old Norse granni, from Proto-Germanic *garaznô (“neighbour”).

#### Noun

grande c (singular definite granden, plural indefinite grander)
* (archaic) neighbour

##### Declension
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʁɑ̃d/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: grandes
* Rhymes: -ɑ̃d

### Adjective

grande
* feminine singular of grand

### Anagrams

* danger, de rang

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* gran (preceding a singular noun)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese grande, from Latin grandis, grandem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾan̪.d̪ɪ]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾan̪.d̪ɪ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ˈħɾande/ [ˈħɾan̪.d̪ɪ]
* Rhymes: -ande
* Hyphenation: gran‧de

### Adjective

grande m or f (plural grandes)
* large
    Synonyms: enorme, groso
    Eso foi de maeso; máis grande que a que eu levei.That was from maeso; bigger than the one I took.

### Further reading

* “grande”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “grande”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “grande”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grande”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Interlingua
### Adjective

grande (comparative major, superlative le major or le maxime)
* big, large
    Antonym: parve
* great

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡran.de/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ande
* Hyphenation: gràn‧de

### Adjective

grande (plural grandi, comparative più grande or maggiore, superlative grandissimo or massimo or sommo, diminutive grandétto or grandìno or grandettìno or grandicèllo (“tall, older (of a person)”), augmentative grandóne (“big/ostentatious spender”) or (rare) grandòtto, pejorative (rare) grandàccio)
* of greater physical dimensions or numerosity
** big, large (in size or quantity)
** tall
** wide, broad
** long
** older (in age, of a person)
    sorella grande ― older sister, big sister
* great (importance)
* (colloquial) Synonym of bravo

#### Usage notes

* The apocopic form gran may be used before singular nouns that start with a consonant. Before singular nouns that start with an impure s, using the apocopic form is ungrammatical but often used in spoken language. Before nouns that start with a vowel, grande can be elided by use of an apostrophe.

### Adverb

grande
* really (intensifier)
    un gran bel piatto ― a really great dish

### Interjection

grande
* great!

### Noun

grande m or f by sense (plural grandi)
* adult, grownup
* (usually in the plural) great (person of major significance)
    i grandi della literature ― the greats of literature

### Noun

grande m (uncountable)
* greatness, magnificence
    ammirare il grande nell'arte ― to admire the greatness in art

### Derived terms

* grande male
* grandeggiare
* grandemente
* grandezza
* grandigia
* grandioso

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish grande, from Latin grandem (“large; great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with Spanish grande.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Spain):(file)

### Adjective

grande (Hebrew spelling גראנדי)
* big; large; great (in size)
    Antonyms: chiko, pekenyo
    Hyponym: grandisimo
** 1979 July, Moshe Shaul, “Istoria i Dezvelopamiento del Djudeo-Espaniol”, in Aki Yerushalayim‎, archived from the original on 3 December 2020, page 11:La primera de eyas es ke el djudeo-espaniol kontiene un grande numero de arkaizmos o sea, palavras ke eran empleadas en Espania asta el siglo XV ma ke dezparesieron dezde entonses de su vokabulario, mientres ke en el djudeo-espaniol kontinuan a existir asta oy.The first of them is that Judeo-Spanish contains a large number of archaisms, or rather, words that were used in Spain until the 15th century but which disappeared after then from its vocabulary, while in Judeo-Spanish they continue to be used to this day.

### Noun

grande m
* adult (grown-up)
    Synonym: adulto
* dignitary; notable
** 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎, Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 239:Esta chirkolar me la dyeron en mi mano por ke la fuera afirmada de todos los grandes.They handed me this notice so that all of the dignitaries would sign it.

### References

* ↑ “grande”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Etymology

grandis +‎ -ē

### Adjective

grande
* nominative neuter singular of grandis

### Adverb

grandē (comparative grandius, superlative grandissimē)
* greatly
* (poetic) loudly, aloud

#### Related terms

* grandifer
* grandis
* granditās
* granditer

### References

* “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)

## Ligurian
### Alternative forms

* grànde (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

### Etymology

From Latin grandem, form of grandis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡraŋ.de/

### Adjective

grande (masculine plural grendi, feminine plural grende)
* big; large; great (in size)

#### Antonyms

* picin

## Norman
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file) (Jersey)

### Adjective

grande
* feminine singular of grànd, grand

## Old French
### Alternative forms

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

### Adjective

grande
* nominative feminine singular of grant
** late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 354, 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.
* oblique feminine singular of grant

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* gran, grand

### Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾan.de/

### Adjective

grande
* 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

#### Descendants

* Fala: grandi
* Galician: grande
* Portuguese: grande

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* gran, grand, grant

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin grandem (“large; great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with Old French grant and Old Galician-Portuguese grande.

### Adjective

grande
* big; large; great (in size)

#### Descendants

* Ladino: grande
* Spanish: grande

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “grande”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 279

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* ganda (Portugal, colloquial)
* grãde (obsolete, abbreviation)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ̃.de/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɡɾɐ̃.dɨ/
* Hyphenation: gran‧de

### Adjective

grande m or f (plural grandes)
* 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.
* large; big; numerous (numerically large)
    Synonym: numeroso
    A família é muito grande. ― The family is very large.
* (preceding nouns) great (of great importance)
    Os grandes reis da antiguidade. ― The great kings of antiquity.
* (preceding nouns) great; magnanimous (noble and generous in spirit)
    Synonym: magnânimo
    Artur foi um grande rei. ― Arthur was a great king.
* grown-up; mature
    Synonyms: crescido, maduro
    Já és grande, podes trabalhar. ― You’re already grown-up, you can work.
* (followed by a city’s name) the metropolitan area of, greater
    Moro na grande Lisboa. ― I live in the metropolis of Lisbon.
    O Grande Porto é uma região metropolitana no norte de Portugal. ― Greater Porto is a metropolitan area in the north of Portugal.

#### Inflection

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

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:grande.

#### Synonyms

* (of great size): see Thesaurus:grande

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “of great size”): pequeno, see Thesaurus:grande

#### Derived terms

* grandão
* grandemente
* grandinho
* infinitamente grande

#### Related terms

* grandeza
* grandioso

### Noun

grande m or f by sense (plural grandes)
* (Brazil, colloquial, used in the vocative) A term of address for someone
    Synonyms: amigo, chefe

### Further reading

* “grande”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* gran (apocopic, preceding a singular noun)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish grande, from Latin grandem (“large; great”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). Cognate with Ladino grande.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɾande/ [ˈɡɾãn̪.d̪e]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ande
* Syllabification: gran‧de

### Adjective

grande m or f (masculine and feminine plural grandes, superlative grandísimo or mayor)
* (after the noun or predicatively) big, large
    Synonyms: (for cloth, shoe, place) amplio, voluminoso
    Antonyms: chico, pequeño
* (before a plural noun) great
    Synonym: grandioso
    Antonym: irrelevante
* (about human age) aged, old
    Synonyms: anciano, viejo
    Antonyms: chico, joven, pequeño
    Mi papá ya es muy grande para hacer eso.My dad is now a bit old to do that.

#### Usage notes

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

#### Derived terms

* a grandes males, grandes remedios
* a lo grande
* agachona grande
* agrandar
* ánsar careto grande
* carpintero grande
* casa grande
* chacurú grande
* chinchero grande
* colimbo grande
* en gran manera
* en grande
* engrandecer
* garceta grande
* gran almacén
* Gran Bretaña
* Gran Canaria
* Gran Cañón
* Gran Colapso
* Gran Colombia
* gran cruz
* gran danés
* gran ducado
* gran duque
* Gran Explosión
* Gran Hermano
* gran jurado
* gran libro
* Gran Mancha Roja
* gran masa
* gran pantalla
* Gran Pirámide de Giza
* Gran Premio
* gran público
* gran simio
* gran superficie
* gran vida
* gran visir
* grandecito
* grandemente
* grandes mentes piensan igual
* grandeza
* grandioso
* grandón
* grandote
* grandulón
* grandura
* hueso grande
* ley de los grandes números
* luis grande
* págalo grande
* pantalla grande
* pasarlo en grande
* pesca de gran altura
* pitotoy grande
* por la puerta grande
* reinamora grande
* requetegrande
* Salar Grande
* serreta grande
* tordo grande
* tren de gran velocidad

### Noun

grande m or f by sense (plural grandes)
* grandee

#### Derived terms

* grande de España

#### Descendants

* → English: grandee
* → German: Grande

### Further reading

* “grande”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10