different between aid vs gradus

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: aide

Etymology 1

From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adi?t?, adi?t?re (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.

Alternative forms

• aide
• ayde (obsolete)

Noun

aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)

1. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. (countable) A helper; an assistant.

   • It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.

3. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.

4. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
5. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
6. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
7. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuv? (“"assist"”, verb).

Verb

aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)

1. (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
2. (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
   • 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)

     Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.

Synonyms

• assist
• befriend
• bestand
• cooperate
• help
• promote
• relieve
• succor
• support
• sustain
• See also Thesaurus:help or Thesaurus:serve

Derived terms

• aidable
• aidance
• aider
• unaided

Related terms

• aidant
• aide-de-camp

Translations

Anagrams

• -iad, Adi, DIA, Dai, Dia, I'd-a, I'da, IAD, Ida, Ida., dai, dia-

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (???id).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??id/

Postposition

aid + dative

1. related to, relating to, having to do with
2. concerning, about

Related terms

• aidiyy?t

References

• “aid” in Obastan.com.

Bau

Noun

aid

1. woman

Further reading

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

1. fence

Panim

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??/

Noun

aid

1. woman

Further reading

• Panim Talking Dictionary

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

1. fence

Inflection

Derived terms

• aidverai

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)

1. garden

Inflection

English

Etymology

From Gradus ad Parnassum (Latin, literally, a step to Parnassus), a 17th-century prosody dictionary long used in British schools.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?d?s/

Noun

gradus (plural graduses)

1. A handbook used as an aid in a difficult art or practice, specifically, a dictionary of Greek or Latin prosody used as a guide in writing of poetry in Greek or Latin.

Anagrams

• Dagurs, Dugars, Guards, draugs, durags, guards

French

Etymology

From Gradus ad Parnassum (Latin, literally, a step to Parnassus), a 17th-century prosody dictionary long used in British schools.

Noun

gradus m (plural gradus)

1. gradus
2. Any books of instruction, or guides, in which gradual progress in literature, language instruction, music, or the arts in general, is sought.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *g?red?- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *gr?sti (Old Church Slavonic ?????? (gr?sti)), Lithuanian gridyti, Proto-Germanic *gridiz (Gothic ???????????????????? (grids)), Old High German crit). The expected form would be *radus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ra.dus/, [??räd??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??ra.dus/, [??r??d?us]

Noun

gradus m (genitive grad?s); fourth declension

1. a step, pace
2. a stage, degree
3. a rank
4. (by extension) a position, station, ground
5. firm position, stand
6. a step, stair, rung of a ladder
7. a braid of hair
8. (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 60 gradibus compositum, et quilibet gradus 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 of degrees, minutes, and seconds, is understood (according to the rule of Alphonse) to be a physical sign, that is, every sign is composed of 60 degrees, and every degree 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.

Declension

• Archaic genitive singular graduis is occasionally found.

Fourth-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• gradior

Descendants

References

• gradus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gradus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gradus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gradus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• gradus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gradus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin