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gradior

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Old Irish do·gré, Old Welsh grynnyaw (“to press, thrust”). The traditional connection of Proto-Slavic *gręsti (“to go”) (Old Church Slavonic грѧсти (gręsti, “to come, walk, go”)), Lithuanian gri̇̀dyti (“to go, wander”), and Proto-Germanic *gridiz (“step”) (Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs)), 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 *gʰreydʰ-, instead.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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

    1. to step, walk, stride
      Synonyms: vādō, ambulō, deambulō, cammīnō, adeō, obeō, pergō, baetō, eō, cēdō, īnferō
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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, Hieronymus, Vulgata Proverbs.13.20:
        Quī cum sapientibus graditur, sapiēns erit: amīcus stultōrum efficiētur similis.
        He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. (KJV)
    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

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    References

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    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

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    • “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.