gradatim
English edit
Etymology edit
Attested in English since 1575–1585:[1] from Latin gradātim, from gradus (“step”).
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
gradatim (not comparable)
- (obsolete) step by step; gradually and methodically.[1]
- 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422
- This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…
- 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:gradatim.
Synonyms edit
- in order, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:sequentially
Related terms edit
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References edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From gradus (“step”) + -ātim.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ɡraˈdaː.tim/, [ɡräˈd̪äːt̪ɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ɡraˈda.tim/, [ɡräˈd̪äːt̪im]
Adverb edit
gradātim (not comparable)
Quotations edit
- 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, page 397:
- Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants edit
- English: gradatim
References edit
- “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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