grates

See also: Grates, gratés, and gråtes

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪts/
Homophone: greats
Rhymes: -eɪts

Noun

grates

plural of grate

Verb

grates

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grate

Anagrams

'Gaters, Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, gaster, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes

Catalan

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.təs/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.tes/

Adjective

grates

feminine plural of grat

Verb

grates

second-person singular present indicative form of gratar

Latin

Etymology

From the plural of Old Latin *grātis, from Proto-Italic *grātis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷérHtis, from the root *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”) +‎ *-tis (deverbal abstract noun–forming suffix). Cognates include Oscan 𐌁𐌓𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌝𐌔 (brateís), Paelignian brat, brais, Vestinian brat, Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to offer, sacrifice”) and Sanskrit गूर्ति (gūrtí, “approval, praise, welcoming; benediction”). Compare grātia.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.teːs/, [ˈɡräːt̪eːs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.tes/, [ˈɡräːt̪es]

Noun

grātēs f pl (genitive grātium); third declension

thanks rendered, thanksgiving

Usage notes

This noun originally appeared only in the nominative and accusative plural (The genitive, dative, and vocative plural are unattested and ablative plural only rarely) and was used with agō when rendering thanks to the gods. grātiās agō was generally used for thanks between humans.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	grātēs
Genitive	grātium
Dative	grātibus
Accusative	grātēs grātīs
Ablative	grātibus
Vocative	grātēs

Related terms

grātē
grātia
grātificor
grātiōsus
grātīs
grātitudō
grātor
grātulātiō
grātulātōrius
grātulor
grātus

References

“grates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“grates”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
grates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
grates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give thanks to heaven: grates agere (dis immortalibus)
- to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus