Etymology

grandeur

gran·deur
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Today it means: The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence. Full definition →

Middle French grandeur ← Old French grandur ← Latin grandis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgrandis“grown up, great”
  2. Old French · derived fromgrandur
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromgrandeur
  4. English todaygrandeur

Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).

Words from the same roots

Latingrandis all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.