The corpus record — Latin

grandio

grandio · v. a

to make great

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k

What it meant

grandĭo — Lewis & Short

grandĭo, īre, v. a. and n.grandis (ante-class.).

I Act., to make great, increase, enlarge: grandire est grandem facere, Varr. Rer. Divin. Lib. I.: cum aut humus semina concipere non possit, aut recepta non reddat, aut edita grandire nequeat, Plaut. Aul. (1, 1, 10): Testudineum istum tibi ego grandibo gradum, Non. 115, 1 sq.—Mid.: nec grandiri frugum fetum posse, nec mitescere, to become great, to grow (cf. grandesco), Pac. ap. Non. 115, 11 (Fragm. Trag. v. 142 Rib.).—

II Neutr., to become great, to grow: Mars pater, te precor, uti tu fruges, frumenta, vineta virgultaque grandire beneque evenire sinas, Cato, R. R. 141, 2.

In the wild

granditas Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.26.10
Grandio Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 2.17
grandire Cato, De agri cultura 141
granditas Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.21.5

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. grandio (scan p. 305; entry #4792).

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