gratia
Interlingua
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin grātia, Italian grazia, Spanish gracia and Portuguese graça, English grace and French grâce.
Noun
gratia (plural gratias)
- grace, mercy, elegance
Derived terms
- gratias
Latin
Etymology
From grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise; to welcome”), whence also Sanskrit गूर्ति (gūrtí, “praise, welcome, benediction”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.ti.a/, [ˈɡräːt̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡrat.t͡si.a/, [ˈɡrät̪ː͡s̪iä]
Noun
grātia f (genitive grātiae); first declension
- grace
- thankfulness
- (in the plural) thanks (see grātiās agō, grātiās habeō)
- alicui grātiās agere ― to thank someone
- Deo gratiam habeamus ― Let us be grateful to God (motto of Kentucky)
- apud Lentulum ponam te in gratiam ― I will put you in favor of Lentulus
- c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 659:
- Et tibi nunc, proinde ut merēre, summās habeō grātiās.
- And now, since you deserve it, I give you my greatest thanks.
- Et tibi nunc, proinde ut merēre, summās habeō grātiās.
- 2nd c. CE, Fronto, Ad Marcum Caesarem et invicem 3.5, (said by Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Fronto):
- Iam hinc tibi, mi Fronto carissime, gratias ago habeoque
- From here, I thank you, my dear Fronto
- Iam hinc tibi, mi Fronto carissime, gratias ago habeoque
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 20:
- Si alicuius indicio vocati, huic habendam gratiam
- If [the Romans] invited by the information of some one, they should feel grateful to him
- Si alicuius indicio vocati, huic habendam gratiam
- influence
- Itaque omnis grātia potentia honos divitiae apud illos.
- "Therefore all influence, power, honor, wealth are among those men." - Sallust, Bellum Catilinae XX.8
- sake; pleasure
- Mitte hunc meā grātiā.
- Let him alone for my sake.
- Hominum grātiā generatur, aluntur bēstiae.
- It is for the sake of man that beasts are bred.
- (figurative) friendship
- Tēcum in grātiam rediī.
- I have become your friend.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | grātia | grātiae |
Genitive | grātiae | grātiārum |
Dative | grātiae | grātiīs |
Accusative | grātiam | grātiās |
Ablative | grātiā | grātiīs |
Vocative | grātia | grātiae |
Derived terms
Derived terms
- exemplī grātiā
- grātia grātiam parit
- grātiās ago
- grātiōsus
- ars grātiā artis (art for art's sake)
Descendants
- Aragonese: gracia
- Asturian: gracia
- Catalan: gràcia
- Corsican: grazia
- Dutch: gratie
- Esperanto: graco
- Extremaduran: gracia
- Old Francoprovençal: graci
- Franco-Provençal: grâci
- Old French: grace
- French: grâce
- → Middle English: grace, graz, crace, gras, grase
- English: grace
- Scots: grace
- Yola: greash, graace
- → Welsh: gras
- Italian: grazia
- Maltese: grazzja
- Piedmontese: grassia
- Old Portuguese: graça
- Galician: graza, grazas, grazas a
- Portuguese: graça
- Romanian: grație
- Sicilian: grazzia
- Spanish: gracia
Postposition
grātiā (with genitive)
- for the sake of
Derived terms
- dicis grātiā
- verbi grātiā
References
- “gratia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gratia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gratia 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)
- gratia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be popular with; to stand well with a person: in gratia esse apud aliquem
- to be highly favoured by; to be influential with..: multum valere gratia apud aliquem
- to be highly favoured by; to be influential with..: florere gratia alicuius
- to gain a person's esteem, friendship: gratiam inire ab aliquoor apud aliquem
- to gain a person's esteem, friendship: in gratiam alicuius venire
- to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari
- to owe gratitude to; to be under an obligation to a person: gratiam alicui debere
- to feel gratitude (in one's heart): gratiam alicui habere
- to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re
- to thank a person (in words): gratias alicui agere pro aliqua re
- to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri
- to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre
- to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere
- to be reconciled; to make up a quarrel: in gratiam cum aliquo redire
- popular favour; popularity: populi favor, gratia popularis
- to court popularity: gratiam populi quaerere
- to have great influence: opibus, gratia, auctoritate valere, florere
- to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
- to gain some one's favour: gratiam inire apud aliquem, ab aliquo (cf. sect. V. 12)
- to be popular with; to stand well with a person: in gratia esse apud aliquem
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti