gratis
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹætɪs/
- Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːtɪs
Adjective edit
gratis (not comparable)
- Free, without charge.
- Synonym: (used in the free software movement to distinguish from libre, "free as in speech") free as in beer
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gratis (not comparable)
- Free, without charge.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 45:
- Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?
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Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.
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Audio (file)
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gratis
Catalan edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin grātīs.
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gratis
- free, for free
- Synonyms: de franc, gratuïtament
Etymology 2 edit
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gratis
Further reading edit
- “gratis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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gratis
Danish edit
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gratis (neuter gratis, plural and definite singular attributive gratis)
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gratis
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.
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gratis (not comparable)
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Inflection of gratis | ||||
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uninflected | gratis | |||
inflected | gratis | |||
comparative | — | |||
positive | ||||
predicative/adverbial | gratis | |||
indefinite | m./f. sing. | gratis | ||
n. sing. | gratis | |||
plural | gratis | |||
definite | gratis | |||
partitive | gratis |
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gratis
Esperanto edit
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gratis
- past of grati
French edit
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gratis
- free, without charge, gratis
- Synonym: gratuitement
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gratis (invariable)
Further reading edit
- “gratis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
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gratis (invariable)
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gratis
- free, without charge
- Synonym: gratuitamente
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gratis
- free, without charge
- Synonyms: umsonst, kostenlos, kostenfrei
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.
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gratis
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- “gratis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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gratis
- for free, gratis
- Synonym: gratuitamente
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gratis (invariable)
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- gratis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Contracted from grātiīs.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡraː.tiːs/, [ˈɡräːt̪iːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.tis/, [ˈɡräːt̪is]
Adverb edit
grātīs (not comparable)
- out of favor or kindness, without recompense or compensation, gratuitously, freely
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- Catalan: gratis
- Dutch: gratis
- English: gratis
- French: gratis
- Galician: gratis
- German: gratis
- Italian: gratis
- Portuguese: grátis
- Romanian: gratis
- Spanish: gratis
- Norwegian: gratis
References edit
- gratis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “gratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat
- a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.
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gratis (Jawi spelling ݢراتيس)
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- (Malaysia) percuma
Further reading edit
- “gratis” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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gratis (indeclinable)
- free (obtainable without payment)
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- “gratis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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gratis (indeclinable)
- free (obtainable without payment)
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- “gratis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
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- Rhymes: -is
Noun edit
gratis m inan
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gratis (not comparable)
- gratis, free of charge
- Synonyms: bezpłatnie, darmo, darmowo, nieodpłatnie, za darmo
- Antonyms: odpłatnie, płatnie
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gratis (not comparable)
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gratis
Adjective edit
gratis m or f or n (indeclinable)
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singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | gratis | gratis | gratis | gratis | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | gratis | gratis | gratis | gratis | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Spanish edit
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gratis (invariable)
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gratis
- free, without charge
- Synonym: gratuitamente
Further reading edit
- “gratis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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audio (file)
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gratis (not comparable)
Adjective edit
gratis (not inflected, not comparable)