Ingranditi

Ingranditi is the masculine plural past participle form of the Italian verb ingrandire, meaning to enlarge or magnify. It also functions as an adjective in the masculine plural to describe objects or images that have been enlarged or magnified. The corresponding feminine forms are ingrandita (singular), ingrandite (plural); the masculine singular participle is ingrandito.

In practice, ingranditi appears in contexts such as photography, microscopy, radiology, printing, and digital image processing, where visual material or structures have been enlarged. It is used in labels, captions, and technical descriptions, often in the phrase parti ingranditi or immagini ingrandite, depending on the gender of the noun it modifies. As a verb form with avere, ingrandire forms compound tenses such as hai ingrandito or abbiamo ingrandito to indicate that enlargement has been performed. When used in passive or descriptive phrases, the adjective agrees with the noun: documenti ingranditi, organi ingranditi, immagini ingrandite.

Etymologically, ingrandire derives from the prefix in- combined with grande, related to the Latin grandis for large. The suffix -ire marks it as an Italian first-conjugation verb, with standard inflection patterns for participles.

See also: ingrandimento, which refers to magnification; ingrandire, the verb itself; related terms in optics, imaging, and printing.