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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.tus/, [ˈɡräːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.tus/, [ˈɡräːt̪us]

Adjective

grātus (feminine grāta, neuter grātum, comparative grātior, superlative grātissimus, adverb grātē); first/second-declension adjective

1. pleasing, acceptable, agreeable, welcome
2. dear, beloved
3. grateful, thankful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	grātus	grāta	grātum		grātī	grātae	grāta
genitive	grātī	grātae	grātī		grātōrum	grātārum	grātōrum
dative	grātō	grātae	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^[1], 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
    
• “gratus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray