grosso modo

From Latin grossō modō.

grosso modo (comparative more grosso modo, superlative most grosso modo)

1. roughly, circa or approximately
   • 1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.

     The fact that event B takes place in the interval separating events A and C has an invariant significance, which may be expressed grosso modo by saying that events which are closer together have more effects in common.

   • 1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95.

     Still others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists.

From Latin grossō modō.

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grosso modo

1. roughly, circa or approximately

• grosso-modo

From Latin grossō modō.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁo.so mo.do/

grosso modo

1. roughly, circa, approximately

   Synonyms: à peu près, approximativement, environ

   • 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Permission”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

     […] L'autre lui disait grosso modo que c'était pas la peine étant donné qu'il allait se trimballer son paquet d'emmerdements avec lui.

     […] He basically told him that there was no point since he'd just be taking all his problems with him.

grosso modo

1. alternative form of grossomodo

Adverbial locution, from grossus (“approximate”) + modus (“way, method”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɔs.soː ˈmɔ.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɔs.so ˈmɔː.d̪o]

grossō modō (not comparable)

1. roughly, circa, approximately
2. coarsely

From Latin grossō modō.

grosso modo

1. roughly, circa or approximately

Unadapted borrowing from Latin grossō modō.

grosso modo

1. roughly, circa or approximately

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:aproximadamente

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “grosso modo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024