grada

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grada, collective of gradus (“step”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɾa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.ða]

grada f (plural grades)

1. a wide step, especially one large enough to sit on; bleacher
2. stairway

   Synonym: graderia

3. (architecture) gradin, gradine
4. (linguistics) tier
5. (nautical) slipway

   Synonym: estepa

• graderia
• gradeta

• grau

• “grada”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

grada

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

grada f

1. definite singular of grad

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑ.dɑ/

grada

1. genitive plural of grad

• Rhymes: -adɐ

grada

1. feminine singular of grado

grada

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From grad +‎ -a.

a grada (third-person singular present gradează, past participle gradat) 1st conjugation

1. to grade

grada (Cyrillic spelling града)

1. genitive singular of grad

• rada, rara (eye dialect)

Possibly borrowed from a hiberian stratum. Ultimately from Latin cratis. Compare Portuguese grade, Spanish grada, Italian grata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾa.da/, [ˈɾa.da], [ˈɾa.ɾa], [ˈɣɾa-]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: grà‧da

grada f (plural gradi)

1. (tool) A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air; a grid, a crating.

   Synonym: passu

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾada/ [ˈɡɾa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: gra‧da

Inherited from Old Spanish grada (“a step of a staircase”), derived from Old Spanish grado (“a staircase, a rank”) via a change in gender (compare Late Latin puncta, from punctus), inherited from Latin gradus (“a step, pace; a step of a staircase; a rank”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”).

grada f (plural gradas)

1. step (of a staircase)

   Synonyms: escalón, peldaño

2. (in the plural) stands, terraces (of a sports stadium)

Inherited from Latin cratis. Compare Portuguese grade, Italian grata. First attested ca. 1490 in Alonso Fernández de Palencia's Universal vocabulario en latín y romance.

grada f (plural gradas)

2. a sieve used to shred and flatten soil already ploughed
3. the bars of a window in a convent

grada

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “grada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “grada”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 188