granditas

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

grandĭtas, ātis, f. [grandis], greatness. *

I Lit., of age (acc. to grandis, I. B.): aetatis granditas, Sisenn. ap. Non. 115, 13. —

II Trop., of style (v. grandis, II. B.), grandeur , sublimity (very rare): idque apparet ex genere et granditate verborum, * Cic. Brut. 31, 121: non illi vis, non granditas, non sublimitas defuit, Plin. Ep. 6, 21, 5.

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