different between grates vs gyrates

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?ts/
• Homophone: greats
• Rhymes: -e?ts

Noun

grates

1. plural of grate

Verb

grates

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grate

Anagrams

• 'Gaters, Greats, Stager, Strega, gaster, greats, ragest, retags, stager, targes

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???a.t?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /???a.tes/

Etymology 1

Adjective

grates

1. feminine plural of grat

Etymology 2

Verb

grates

1. second-person singular present indicative form of gratar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *g?erH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”). Cognates include Sanskrit ?????? (g????ti, “to praise”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (žr?ti) and Old Prussian girtwei (“to praise”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ra?.te?s/, [??rä?t?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??ra.tes/, [??r??t??s]

Noun

gr?t?s f pl (genitive gr?tium); third declension

1. thanks rendered, thanksgiving

Usage notes

This noun originally appeared only in the nominative and accusative plural (The genitive, dative, and vocative plural are unattested and ablative plural only rarely) and was used with ag? when rendering thanks to the gods. gr?ti?s ag? was generally used for thanks between humans.

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular., singular only.

Related terms

References

• grates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grates in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• grates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Verb

gyrates

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gyrate

Anagrams

• grayest, stagery