grandisme
Appearance
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]grandisme m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grandisme)
- very big; very large
- 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini[1], Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:
- si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience
- Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts—according to his good intention—the dearest and most precious jewels he can there, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
- (literally, “Just like the lord, who wants in tiny place to accumulate things of very great value […] ”)
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (grandisme)