aggrandise
Meaningto make great
Common meaning: to make greater in power or rank
- agto, towards (form of ad-)
- grandgreat, full-grownLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 823 · scan
- iseverb ending: to make, to do
‘to, towards (form of ad-)’ + ‘great, full-grown’ → aggrandise
Journey through time
- Latingrandis‘great, full-grown’
- Frenchaggrandiss
- Englishaggrandise‘to make greater in power or rank’ · today
ag- also in: aggregateagglomerateagglutinate
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin grandis ‘great, full-grown’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry grandis, p. 242 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry GRAMPUS, p. 242 · dictionary scan
Roots
- grandis Latin “great, full-grown”
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