grandeur的词源

英文词源

grandeur (n.)

c. 1500, "loftiness, height," from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandor "size, height, extent, magnitude; greatness" (12c.), from grand "great" (see grand (adj.)). "Being a word of late adoption, it retains the Fr. form -eur of the suffix." Extended sense of "majesty, stateliness" in English is first recorded 1660s.

中文词源

grandeur：壮丽，堂皇

来自grand, 壮丽的，堂皇的。

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