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.
- 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
- 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
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

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)
Dizionario Latino, Olivetti