From Middle English engrossen, from Anglo-Norman engrosser ("to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form"); partly from the phrase en gros, from en- + gros; and partly from Medieval Latin ingrossō ("thicken, write something large and in bold lettering"), from in- + grossus, from Old High German grōz ("big, thick, coarse"), from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz ("large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined"), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- ("to fell, put down, fall in"). More at in-, gross.
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