grator
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From grātus (“pleasing, acceptable”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.tor/, [ˈɡräːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.tor/, [ˈɡräːt̪or]
Verb
[edit]grātor (present infinitive grātārī, perfect active grātātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- (mostly poetic) to manifest joy, wish one joy, congratulate, rejoice with, rejoice
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.478–479:
- “Invēnī, germāna, viam — grātāre sorōrī —
quae mihi reddat eum, vel eō mē solvat amantem.”- [Dido says,] “I have found, [dearest Anna], a way — wish joy to your sister! — which will return him to me, or else release me from loving that man.”
(grātāre: second person singular present active imperative.)
- [Dido says,] “I have found, [dearest Anna], a way — wish joy to your sister! — which will return him to me, or else release me from loving that man.”
- “Invēnī, germāna, viam — grātāre sorōrī —
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of grātor (first conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | grātor | grātāris, grātāre |
grātātur | grātāmur | grātāminī | grātantur |
| imperfect | grātābar | grātābāris, grātābāre |
grātābātur | grātābāmur | grātābāminī | grātābantur | |
| future | grātābor | grātāberis, grātābere |
grātābitur | grātābimur | grātābiminī | grātābuntur | |
| perfect | grātātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | grātātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | grātātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | grāter | grātēris, grātēre |
grātētur | grātēmur | grātēminī | grātentur |
| imperfect | grātārer | grātārēris, grātārēre |
grātārētur | grātārēmur | grātārēminī | grātārentur | |
| perfect | grātātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | grātātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | grātāre | — | — | grātāminī | — |
| future | — | grātātor | grātātor | — | — | grātantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | grātārī | grātātum esse | grātātūrum esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | grātāns | grātātus | grātātūrus | — | — | grātandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| grātandī | grātandō | grātandum | grātandō | grātātum | grātātū | ||
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “grator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- grator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.