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English
Pronunciation
Noun
grates
- plural of grate
Verb
grates
- third-person singular simple present indicative of grate
Anagrams
- 'Gaters, Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, gaster, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
grates
- feminine plural of grat
Etymology 2
Verb
grates
- second-person singular present indicative of gratar
Latin
Etymology
From the plural of Old Latin *grātis, from Proto-Italic *gʷrātis, 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
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.
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
Spanish
Verb
grates
- second-person singular present subjunctive of gratar