gratus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *gʷrātos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H-tó-s, from *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”).
Cognates include Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇā́ti, “to praise”) and गूर्त (gūrtá, “pleasing, agreeable, welcome”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti) and Old Prussian girtwei (“to praise”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.tus/, [ˈɡräːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.tus/, [ˈɡräːt̪us]
Adjective
grātus (feminine grāta, neuter grātum, comparative grātior, superlative grātissimus, adverb grātē); first/second-declension adjective
- pleasing, acceptable, agreeable, welcome
- dear, beloved
- grateful, thankful
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | grātus | grāta | grātum | grātī | grātae | grāta | |
| Genitive | grātī | grātae | grātī | grātōrum | grātārum | grātōrum | |
| Dative | grātō | grātō | grātīs | ||||
| Accusative | grātum | grātam | grātum | grātōs | grātās | grāta | |
| Ablative | grātō | grātā | grātō | grātīs | |||
| Vocative | grāte | grāta | grātum | grātī | grātae | grāta | |
Derived terms
- grātē
- grātia
- grātificor
- grātitūdō
- grātor
- pergrātus
Related terms
- grātīs
- grātiōsus
- grātulātiō
- grātulātōrius
- grātulor
Descendants
- Catalan: grat
- French: gré
- Italian: grado, grato
- Occitan: grat, agrat
- Portuguese: grado, grato
- Spanish: grado, grato
References
- “gratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gratus 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)
- gratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to do any one a (great) favour: gratum (gratissimum) alicui facere
- gratitude: gratus (opp. ingratus) animus
- to show a thankful appreciation of a person's kindness: grata memoria aliquem prosequi
- to think of a person with a grateful sense of his goodness: nomen alicuius grato animo prosequi
- to retain a (most) pleasant impression of a person: gratam (gratissimam) alicuius memoriam retinere
- to do any one a (great) favour: gratum (gratissimum) alicui facere
- “gratus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray