# gratia
## Interlingua
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātia, Italian grazia, Spanish gracia and Portuguese graça, English grace and French grâce.

### Noun

gratia (plural gratias)
* grace, mercy, elegance

#### Derived terms

* gratias

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* grācia (Early Medieval)

### Etymology

From grātus (“pleasing”). Related to Sanskrit गूर्ति (gūrtí, “praise, welcome, benediction”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈɡraː.ti.a/, [ˈɡräːt̪iä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈɡrat.t͡si.a/, [ˈɡrät̪ː͡s̪iä]

### Noun

grātia f (genitive grātiae); first declension
* grace
* thankfulness
* (in the plural) thanks (see grātiās agō, grātiās habeō)
    alicui grātiās agere ― to thank someone
    Deō grātiam habeāmus ― Let us be grateful to God (motto of Kentucky)
    apud Lentulum pōnam tē in grātiam ― I will put you in favor of Lentulus
** c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 659:Et tibi nunc, proinde ut merēre, summās habeō grātiās.And now, since you deserve it, I give you my greatest thanks.
** 2nd c. CE, Fronto, Ad Marcum Caesarem et invicem 3.5, (said by Emperor Marcus Aurelius to Fronto):Iam hinc tibi, mī Frontō cārissime, grātiās agō habeōqueFrom here, I thank you, my dear Fronto
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.20:Sī alicuius indiciō vocātī, huic habendam grātiamIf [the Romans] invited by the information of some one, they should feel grateful to him
* influence
    Itaque omnis grātia potentia honōs dīvitiae apud illōs."Therefore all influence, power, honor, wealth are among those men." - Sallust, Bellum Catilinae XX.8
* sake; pleasure
    exemplī grātiā ― for the sake of an example
    Mitte hunc meā grātiā.Send this for my sake.
    Hominum grātiā generatur, aluntur bēstiae.It is for the sake of man that beasts are bred.
* (figurative) friendship
    Tēcum in grātiam rediī.I have become your friend.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* ars grātiā artis (art for art's sake)
* exemplī grātiā
* grātia grātiam parit
* grātiās ago
* grātiōsus

#### Descendants

All are borrowings.
* Aragonese: gracia
* Asturian: gracia
* Catalan: gràcia
* Corsican: grazia
* → Dutch: gratie
* Esperanto: graco
* Extremaduran: gracia
* Old Francoprovençal: graci
** Franco-Provençal: graci
* Old French: grace
** French: grâce
** → Middle English: grace, graz, crace, gras, grase
*** English: grace
*** Scots: grace
*** Yola: greash, graace
*** → Welsh: gras
*** → Cornish: gras
* Italian: grazia
* Maltese: grazzja
* Piedmontese: grassia
* Old Galician-Portuguese: graça
** Galician: graza, grazas, grazas a
** Portuguese: graça
* Romanian: grație
* Sicilian: grazzia
* Spanish: gracia

### Postposition

grātiā (+ genitive)
* for the sake of

#### Derived terms

* dicis grātiā
* verbi grātiā

### References

* “gratia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “gratia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "gratia", 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)
* gratia 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: in gratia esse apud aliquem to be highly favoured by; to be influential with..: multum valere gratia apud aliquem to be highly favoured by; to be influential with..: florere gratia alicuius to gain a person's esteem, friendship: gratiam inire ab aliquoor apud aliquem to gain a person's esteem, friendship: in gratiam alicuius venire to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari to owe gratitude to; to be under an obligation to a person: gratiam alicui debere to feel gratitude (in one's heart): gratiam alicui habere to show gratitude (in one's acts): gratiam alicui referre (meritam, debitam) pro aliqua re to thank a person (in words): gratias alicui agere pro aliqua re to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri to reward amply; to give manifold recompense for: bonam (praeclaram) gratiam referre to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: in gratiam aliquem cum aliquo reducere to be reconciled; to make up a quarrel: in gratiam cum aliquo redire popular favour; popularity: populi favor, gratia popularis to court popularity: gratiam populi quaerere to have great influence: opibus, gratia, auctoritate valere, florere to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi to gain some one's favour: gratiam inire apud aliquem, ab aliquo (cf. sect. V. 12)
* Dizionario Latino, Olivetti