different between gratis vs supply

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English supplien, borrowed from Old French soupleer, souploier, from Latin supplere (“to fill up, make full, complete, supply”).The Middle English spelling was modified to conform to Latin etymology.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?pl??, IPA^(key): /s??pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: sup?ply

Verb

supply (third-person singular simple present supplies, present participle supplying, simple past and past participle supplied)

2. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.

   to supply money for the war

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3. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.

   to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition

4. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.

   Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.

5. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:

     It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.

6. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter

     Burning ships the banished sun supply.

   • The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.

7. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
8. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.

   to supply a pulpit

Derived terms

• supplier

Related terms

• suppletion

Translations

Noun

supply (countable and uncountable, plural supplies)

1. (uncountable) The act of supplying.

   supply and demand

2. (countable) An amount of something supplied.

   A supply of good drinking water is essential.

   She said, “China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater.

3. (in the plural) provisions.
4. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.

   to vote supplies

5. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.

Derived terms

• loss of supply
• supply teacher
• supply vessel

Translations

Etymology 2

supple +? -ly

Alternative forms

• supplely

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?p?l?, IPA^(key): /?s?pli/
• Hyphenation: sup?ply

Adverb

supply (comparative more supply, superlative most supply)

1. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
   • 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court, page 68:

     His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply.

   • 1938, David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists:

     […] the rain struck on her head as she bent supply to the movements of the pony, while it scrambled up the bank to the sheltering trees. For a couple of miles the path ran through woods alive with the varied voices of the rain, […]

   • 1963, Johanna Moosdorf, Next door:

     She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.

   • 1988, ??????? ?????????????? ???????? (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:

     Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows.

     'They'll see!'

     'Let them!'

     'I'd be ashamed—'

Further reading

• supply in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• supply in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• supply at OneLook Dictionary Search