Where does “grandeur” come from?
Grandeur comes from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ghrewə- meaning to grow or enlarge, combined with the Latin agentive suffix -or.
grandeur (English): The state of being grand or splendid;...
Definitions
- The state of being grand or splendid;...
Ancestry of “grandeur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | grandeur | — |
| 2 | Old French | grandur | largeness; bigness |
| 3 | Old French | grant | big, large |
| 4 | Old French | -ur | -er, used for form agent nouns |
| 5 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |