gross

Bedeutung (English)

Synonyms

round hand

the whole

total amount

unwieldy

bad feeling

be disgusting

bowelless

feeling bad

overall weight

144

enormous

full weight

gross load

Frequenz

B2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ɡɹəʊs/
Etymologie (English)

In summary

From Middle English gross (“whole, entire; flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stout”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), influenced by Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, to stroke, to grind”). Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (“large”) (Berry) and grô (“large”) (Burgundy), Catalan gros (“big”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great.

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