gratus

From Proto-Italic *gʷrātos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H-tó-s, from *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”).^[1]

Cognates include Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇā́ti, “to praise”) and गूर्त (gūrtá, “pleasing, agreeable, welcome”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti) and Old Prussian girtwei (“to praise”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.tus/,

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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
    
• “gratus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray