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Latin
Etymology
From grātia + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grātiōsus (feminine grātiōsa, neuter grātiōsum, comparative grātiōsior, superlative grātiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- popular, agreeable
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “gratiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gratiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gratiosus 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)
- gratiosus 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: gratiosum esse alicui or apud aliquem
- to be popular, influential: gratiosum esse (opp. invisum esse)