gratiosus

Latin

Etymology

From grātia +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡraː.tiˈoː.sus/, [ɡräːt̪iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡrat.t͡siˈo.sus/, [ɡrät̪ː͡s̪iˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

grātiōsus (feminine grātiōsa, neuter grātiōsum, comparative grātiōsior, superlative grātiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. popular, agreeable

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	grātiōsus	grātiōsa	grātiōsum		grātiōsī	grātiōsae	grātiōsa
Genitive	grātiōsī	grātiōsae	grātiōsī		grātiōsōrum	grātiōsārum	grātiōsōrum
Dative	grātiōsō		grātiōsō		grātiōsīs
Accusative	grātiōsum	grātiōsam	grātiōsum		grātiōsōs	grātiōsās	grātiōsa
Ablative	grātiōsō	grātiōsā	grātiōsō		grātiōsīs
Vocative	grātiōse	grātiōsa	grātiōsum		grātiōsī	grātiōsae	grātiōsa

Descendants

• Catalan: graciós
• English: gracious
• French: gracieux
• Italian: grazioso
• Norman: grâcieux
• Old French: gracieus
  • → Middle Dutch: gracioos
    • Dutch: gracieus, gratieus (superseded)
      • Afrikaans: grasieus
• Piedmontese: grassios
• Portuguese: gracioso
• Romanian: grațios
• Sicilian: grazziusu
• Spanish: gracioso

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^[1], 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)