Translation
magnificent, grand, imposing
Word origin
From Italian grandioso, an Italian formation on grande, which is Latin grandis ('big, full-grown'). Esperanto borrowed the finished Italian adjective rather than assembling it.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- grandioso
- English cognates
- grandiose, grand, aggrandise
Examples
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The palace is a magnificent building.
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We watched a magnificent show at the theatre.
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From the mountain you see a magnificent valley.
The obvious reading is wrong. is not with a suffix on it, because Esperanto has no -ioz- to add: the whole thing is one borrowed root, grandioz-, and its relationship to is a matter of family history rather than of grammar. Watch the meaning too. English grandiose has soured into pretentious, but has not: it is warm praise, closer to magnificent, and the pejorative job belongs to pompa or a.
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