different between gradatim vs literatim

English

Etymology

Attested in English since 1575–1585: from Latin grad?tim, from gradus (“step”).

Pronunciation

• (Latinate) IPA^(key): /??æ.dæ?ti?m/
• (Anglicised) IPA^(key): /????de?.t?m/

Adverb

gradatim (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) step by step; gradually and methodically.
   • 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…

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gradatim.

Synonyms

• in order, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:sequentially

Related terms

References

Latin

Etymology

From gradus (“step”) +? -?tim.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?da?.tim/, [?rä?d?ä?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra?da.tim/, [?r??d???t?im]

Adverb

grad?tim (not comparable)

1. step by step, gradually

Quotations

• 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, p397

  Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.

Descendants

• English: gradatim

References

• 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

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin litter?tim, from littera (“letter”). First known use: 1643.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?.t??e?.t?m/

Adverb

literatim (not comparable)

1. (of the copying of text) Letter by letter.
   • 1825: Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, A Synopsis of the Peerage of England: Exhibiting, under Alphabetical Arrangement, The Date of Creation, Descent, and Present State of Every Title of Peerage Which has Existed in this Country since the Conquest. In Two Volumes, p807

     This fact is not otherwise important than as it tends to prove, that no verbatim et literatim copy of the original has as yet been published.

   • 1845: Jean Calvin, Works…, pXXIV

     The only liberty which has been taken in reprinting this Dedication, is in reference to the supplying of modern punctuation, and the division of it into paragraphs; but in other respects it is given verbatim et literatim.

   • 1903: The Friends’ Historical Society, The Journal of the Friends’ Historical Society, p1

     In order to give its Scots flavor to the eye, as I cannot to the ear, I shall transcribe its beginning literatim.

   • 2004: Peter Esprit Radisson, Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, p2

     But the meaning is in all cases clearly conveyed, and, in justice both to the author and the reader, they have been printed verbatim et literatim, as in the original manuscripts.

Related terms

• verbatim et literatim

See also

• gradatim
• seriatim
• verbatim

Anagrams

• time trial