different between grads vs gradus

English

Noun

grads

1. plural of grad

Anagrams

• dargs, drags, gards

Swedish

Noun

grads

1. indefinite genitive singular of grad

Anagrams

• drags

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