FromGradus ad Parnassum (Latin, literally, a step to Parnassus), a 17th-centuryprosody dictionary long used in British schools.Doublet ofgrade.
gradus (pluralgraduses)
- Ahandbook used as anaid in a difficultart orpractice, specifically, adictionary ofGreek orLatinprosody used as aguide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin.
Ellipsis ofGradus ad Parnassum(literally“a step to Parnassus”), a 17th-centuryprosody dictionary long used in British schools.Doublet ofgrade.
gradus m (pluralgradus)
- gradus
- any books of instruction, or guides, in which gradual progress in literature, language instruction, music, or the arts in general, is sought
FromProto-Italic*graðus, fromProto-Indo-European*gʰredʰ-(“to walk, go”). Seegradior(“to step, walk”) for discussion on cognates.[1]
gradus m (genitivegradūs);fourth declension
- astep,pace
- agrade
- astage,degree
- arank
- Synonyms:ōrdō,classis,sors
- (by extension) aposition,station,ground
- firmposition,stand
- astep,stair,rung of aladder
- abraid ofhair
- (mathematics)degree
1553,Luminarum atque Planetarum motuum Tabulae octogina quinque, omnium ex his quae Alphonsum sequuntur quam faciles[1]:Motus, seu locus, per signa,gradus, minuta, et secunda constitutus, intelligitur (secundum regulam Alphonsi) signa physica, id est quodlibet signum ex 60gradibus compositum, et quilibetgradus ex 60 minutis, et quodlibet minutum ex 60 secundis, et sic succesivem: et per consequens, sex signa totum circulum perficiunt.- A motion, or location, for a sign, being composed ofdegrees, minutes, and seconds, is understood (according to the rule of Alphonse) to be a physical sign, that is, every sign is composed of 60degrees, and everydegree of 60 minutes, and every minute of 60 seconds, and so on and so forth: and in consequence, six signs make up an entire circle.
- Archaic genitive singulargraduis is occasionally found.
Fourth-declension noun.
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gradior, gradī”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page268
- “gradus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gradus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "gradus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gradus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to take a step:gradum facere
- to increase one's pace:gradum addere (sc.gradui) (Liv. 26. 9)
- on tiptoe:suspenso gradu
- to retreat step by step:gradum sensim referre
- to disconcert a person:animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more stronglydepellere, deturbare)
- to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted:de gradu deici, ut dicitur
- to occupy a very high position in the state:in altissimo dignitatis gradu collocatum, locatum, positum esse
- to depose, bring down a person from his elevated position:aliquem ex altissimo dignitatis gradu praecipitare (Dom. 37. 98)
- to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6):aliquem de dignitatis gradu demovere
- to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6):aliquem gradu movere, depellere orde gradu (statu) deicere
- to attain a position of dignity:dignitatis gradum ascendere
- to reach the highest grade of office:amplissimos honorum gradus assequi, adipisci
- to advance rapidly:citato gradu incedere (cf. sect. II. 5)
- to halt:gradum sistere
- to march on the enemy:gradum inferre in hostem
- “gradus”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “gradus”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
