Jump to content

gradior

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (to walk, go). Cognate with Old Irish do·grē, Welsh grynnyaw (to press, thrust). The traditional connection of Proto-Slavic *gręsti (to go) (Old Church Slavonic грѧсти (gręsti, to come, walk, go)), Lithuanian gridyti (to go, wander), and Proto-Germanic *gridiz (step) (Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌳𐍃 (grids)), Old High German crit) is contested, as the Germanic and Balto-Slavic forms, as well as Old Irish ad·greinn (to track, follow), seem to trace back to a different root, Proto-Indo-European *gʰridʰ-, instead.[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

gradior (present infinitive gradī, perfect active gressus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, deponent

  1. to step, walk, stride
    Synonyms: vādō, ambulō, deambulō, cammīnō, adeō, obeō, pergō, baetō, , cēdō, īnferō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.147:
      [...] ipse iugīs Cynthī graditur, [...].
      [Apollo] himself strides upon the ridges of Cynthus, [...].
  2. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) (figuratively) to "walk" as in to act or behave, to join with
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.13.20:
      Quī cum sapientibus graditur, sapiēns erit: amīcus stultōrum efficiētur similis.
      He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)
  3. to advance, proceed, go, move
    Synonyms: adorior, prōgredior, prōdeō, prōcēdō, adeō, incēdō, subeō, aggredior, īnferō, succēdō, prōficiō
    Antonyms: discēdō, dīgredior, facessō, excēdō, dēficiō, dēgredior, dēcēdō

Conjugation

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gradior, gradī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 268-9

Further reading

[edit]
  • gradior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gradior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gradior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.