Granting

How to spell granting

8 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce granting

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does granting mean?

1. verbAgreeing to give, allow, or formally confer something that has been requested.

Granting in a sentence

• The council is granting permission for the new extension.

• The bank is considering granting him a larger loan.

Where does granting come from?

Language of origin: French

This word is the present participle of the verb 'grant', which came into English in the 1200s from the Anglo-French word 'granter', a regional variant of Old French 'creanter', meaning to promise, assure, or guarantee. That verb traces back to the Latin 'credentare', built on 'credere', which literally meant to entrust or to believe; the same Latin root sits inside everyday words such as 'credit', 'creed', and 'credential'. The original sense of solemnly promising or pledging gradually softened into the modern meaning of agreeing to give or allowing something. The spelling lost the early French 'c' and settled into the simple 'grant' form, so the participle is formed in the ordinary way by adding -ing, with no doubling of the final 't'. Because the verb stem is plain and regular, the chief thing to remember is that no extra letter creeps in before the suffix.

How the word is built

• grant (from Old French granter: to promise, allow)
• -ing (present participle / gerund suffix)