different between grant vs gratis

English

Alternative forms

• graunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credent?re, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). More at guarantee, credit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ænt/
• (Mid-Atlantic Accent) IPA^(key): /???nt/
• Rhymes: -ænt, -??nt

Verb

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

1. (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)

2. (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

     He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.
3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

   Synonyms: concur, concede, allow

   • a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

     The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.

Translations

Noun

grant (plural grants)

1. The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
2. The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
3. The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

4. (law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.

5. The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
6. (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).

Translations

Anagrams

• Trang

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rant]

Noun

grant m

1. grant (the thing or property granted; a gift; a boon)

Derived terms

• grantový

Related terms

• See krédo

Further reading

• grant in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• grant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• grand

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (feminine singular grant or granta, masculine plural grants, feminine plural grants or grantes)

1. big, large

Derived terms

Friulian

Alternative forms

• grand (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant

1. big, large

Middle French

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grans)

1. (early Middle French) Alternative form of grand

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grant

1. neuter singular of grann

Old French

Etymology

From Latin grandis, grandem.

Adjective

grant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular grant or grande)

1. big, large

Declension

Descendants

• Middle French: grand
  • French: grand
• Norman: grand
• Picard: grand
• ? English: grand

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• grand (alternative spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ãnt], [??ãn]

Adjective

grant m or f (plural grandes)

1. Apocopic form of grande; great; big; large.
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.

     Fue el dia ?cero al alba dela man. ¬ vin?er? truenos ¬ rel?pagos ¬ nuf gr?t ?obrel m?t.

     On the morning of the third day there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.

Descendants

• Spanish: gran

Swedish

Adjective

grant

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of grann.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gratis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????.t?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???æt?s/

Adjective

gratis (not comparable)

1. Free, without charge.

   Synonym: (used in the free software movement to distinguish from libre, "free as in speech") free as in beer

Translations

Adverb

gratis (not comparable)

1. Free, without charge.

Related terms

• gratuity
• gratuitous

Translations

See also

• libre

Anagrams

• striga, trigas

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gratis, from Latin gr?t?s, contraction of gr?ti?s.

Adverb

gratis

1. free, without charge

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /???a.tis/

Etymology 1

From Latin gr?t?s.

Adverb

gratis

1. free, for free

   Synonyms: de franc, gratuïtament

Etymology 2

Verb

gratis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of gratar

Further reading

• “gratis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?tis/, [??????d?is]

Adjective

gratis (neuter gratis, plural and definite singular attributive gratis)

1. gratis, free (obtainable without payment)

Adverb

gratis

1. gratis, free (without needing to pay)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gr?t?s, contraction of gr?ti?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ra?t?s/
• Hyphenation: gra?tis

Adjective

gratis (not comparable)

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: kosteloos

Inflection

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gratis
• ? Indonesian: gratis
• ? Javanese: ??????? (gratis)

Adverb

gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: kosteloos

Esperanto

Verb

gratis

1. past of grati

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gr?t?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.tis/

Adverb

gratis

1. free, without charge, gratis

Synonyms

• gratuitement

Adjective

gratis (invariable)

1. free; for free, without charge

Synonyms

• gratuit

Further reading

• “gratis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin gratis

Adjective

gratis m or f singular & plural

1. free, without charge

Synonyms

• gratuíto

Adverb

gratis

1. free, without charge

Synonyms

• gratuitamente

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???a?t?s/

Adverb

gratis

1. free, without charge

Synonyms

• umsonst
• kostenlos
• kostenfrei

Further reading

• “gratis” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch gratis, from Latin gr?t?s, contraction of gr?ti?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??rat?s]
• Hyphenation: gra?tis

Adjective

gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: cuma-cuma, percuma

Derived terms

• gratisan
• menggratiskan

Further reading

• “gratis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gratis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ra.tis/

Adverb

gratis

1. gratis, free

   Synonym: gratuitamente

Adjective

gratis (invariable)

1. free

   Synonym: gratuito

Further reading

• gratis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• stragi

Latin

Etymology

Contracted from gr?ti?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ra?.ti?s/, [??rä?t?i?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??ra.tis/, [??r??t?is]

Adverb

gr?t?s (not comparable)

1. out of favor or kindness, without recompense or compensation, gratuitously

Synonyms

• gr?tu?t?

Related terms

Descendants

References

• gratis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gratis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gratis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gratiis

Adjective

gratis (indeclinable)

1. free (obtainable without payment)

Derived terms

• gratisavis

References

• “gratis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gratiis

Adjective

gratis (indeclinable)

1. free (obtainable without payment)

Derived terms

• gratisavis

References

• “gratis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin gratis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ra.tis/

Noun

gratis m inan

1. perquisite, free gift

Declension

Adverb

gratis (not comparable)

1. gratis, free of charge

   Synonyms: bezp?atnie, darmo, darmowo, gratisowo, nieodp?atnie, za darmo

Derived terms

• (adjective) gratisowy
• (adverb) gratisowo

Further reading

• gratis in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gratis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gratis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ra.tis]

Adverb

gratis

1. free of charge, for free

Adjective

gratis m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. free of charge, for free

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin gr?t?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???atis/, [???a.t?is]

Adjective

gratis (invariable)

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: gratuito

Derived terms

• de gratis

Adverb

gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: gratuitamente

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adverb

gratis (not comparable)

1. free, without charge

Adjective

gratis (not inflected, not comparable)

1. free, without charge

Anagrams

• girats, stigar, trasig