gradatim

English

Etymology

Attested in English since 1575–1585: from Latin gradātim, from gradus (“step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæ.dæˈtiːm/
• IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈdeɪ.tɪm/

Adverb

gradatim (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) step by step; gradually and methodically.
   • 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422

     This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gradatim.

Synonyms

• in order, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:sequentially

Related terms

Related terms

• alternatim

• literatim

• seriatim

• verbatim

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Latin

Etymology

From gradus (“step”) +‎ -ātim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡraˈdaː.tim/, [ɡräˈd̪äːt̪ɪ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡraˈda.tim/, [ɡräˈd̪äːt̪im]

Adverb

gradātim (not comparable)

1. step by step, gradually

Quotations

• 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, p397

  Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.

Descendants

• English: gradatim

References

• “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers