grates

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪts/
• Homophone: greats
• Rhymes: -eɪts

grates

1. plural of grate

grates

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grate

• 'Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, gaster, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes

grates

1. second-person singular present indicative form of gratar

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”). Cognates include Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇā́ti, “to praise”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti) and Old Prussian girtwei (“to praise”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡraː.teːs/

grātēs f (genitive grātium); third declension

1. thanks rendered, thanksgiving

This noun originally appeared only in the nominative and accusative plural (The genitive, dative, and vocative plural are unattested and ablative plural only rarely) and was used with agō when rendering thanks to the gods. grātiās agō was generally used for thanks between humans.

Third declension i-stem.

• grates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grates in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• grates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give thanks to heaven: grates agere (dis immortalibus)
    
  • to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus