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grator
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.tor]
Verb
grātor (present infinitive grātārī, perfect active grātātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (mostly poetic) to manifest joy, wish one joy, congratulate, rejoice with, rejoice
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.478–479:
- “Invēnī, germāna, viam — grātāre sorōrī —
quae mihi reddat eum, vel eō mē solvat amantem.”- [Dido says,] “I have found, [dearest Anna], a way — wish joy to your sister! — which will return him to me, or else release me from loving that man.”
(grātāre: second person singular present active imperative.)
- [Dido says,] “I have found, [dearest Anna], a way — wish joy to your sister! — which will return him to me, or else release me from loving that man.”
- “Invēnī, germāna, viam — grātāre sorōrī —
Conjugation
Related terms
References
- “grator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “grator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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