agradesçer
Old Spanish
Etymology
From a- + gradescer (“to thank”), derived from Late Latin grātum (“act of thanks”) + -ēscō, -ēscere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɣɾaðeˈt͡seɾ/
Verb
agradesçer
- to thank
- ca. 1250, anonymous, Bocados de oro , (ed. by Mechthild Crombach, 1971, Bonn: Romanisches Seminar der Universität Bonn):
- E dixo que ha de aver en el creyente diez e seis virtudes: […] La quinzena es agradescer a Dios por las ocasiones que acaescen en el mundo.
- And he said that a believer must have sixteen virtues: […] The fifteenth one is to thank God for all events that happen in the world.
- E dixo que ha de aver en el creyente diez e seis virtudes: […] La quinzena es agradescer a Dios por las ocasiones que acaescen en el mundo.
Descendants
- Spanish: agradecer
Further reading
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “grado”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 189