The story
- Latin · derived fromgrandis“great, grand”
- Italian · borrowed fromgrandioso
- English todaygrandioso
Borrowed from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Doublet of grandiose.
Words from the same roots
Italiangrandioso all →
grandiose
Latingrandis all →
grandgrantgrandeurgrandiosegrandee
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.