Grando, grándinis, pen. cor. f. g. Plin. Haile.Ruina grandinis. Lucr. Imbres grandinis. Lucre. Brumalis grando.Ouid. Gelida. Claud. Hyberna.Ouid. Niuosa. Liu.Spissa.Ouid. Præcipitans cadrt grando.Cic.Haile powreth downe.Contudit grando vites. Hor. Grando si quippiam nocuit.Cic.Hyems pugnat grandine.Ouid.Crepitans salit borrida grando. Virgil. The tolde haile comming downe catleth and leapeth.Nerberatæ grandine vineæ. Horat. Beaten with haile.Grandinôsus. penu. prod. Adiect. vt, Qualitas cœli grandinosa. Colum. The state of the weather is subiect to haile.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
grando, ĭnis, f. (masc., Varr. ap. Non. 208, 11) [Sanscr. hrād-uni, storm; Gr. xa/laza for xalad-ia], hail, a hail-storm.I.Lit., Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 58; id. Merc. 5, 2, 19; Cic. N. D. 3, 35, 86; Liv. 28, 37, 7; Verg. G. 1, 449; Hor. C. 1, 2, 2; 3, 1, 29 et saep.: nimbus cum saxea grandine subito est exortus ingens, hailstones, Auct. B. Afr. 47, 1.—In plur.: terrere animos, nimbis, nivibus, grandinibus, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 5, 14: grandines ruunt, Plin. 2, 38, 38, 103.—B.Transf., poet., a shower, i. e. a great quantity, a multitude: et densa resonant saxorum grandine turres, Sil. 2, 38: aspera saxorum, id. 9, 578.— II.Trop., of copious speech: qui grandines Ulixei (superat), Aus. Ep. 16, 13.