gradatim
English
Etymology
Attested in English since 1575–1585:[1] from Latin gradātim, from gradus (“step”).
Pronunciation
- (Latinate) IPA(key): /ɡɹæ.dæˈtiːm/
- (Anglicised) IPA(key): /ɡɹəˈdeɪ.tɪm/
Adverb
gradatim (not comparable)
- (obsolete) step by step; gradually and methodically.[1]
- 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422
- This trend of thought and preaching and practice resulted gradatim in the junior certificate, to mark the distinction between university and secondary…
- 1928, JUNE: W J Cooper, The School Review: The Junior-College Movement in California, vol. 36, № 6, pp409–422
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:gradatim.
Synonyms
- in order, stepwise; see also Thesaurus:sequentially
Related terms
References
Latin
Etymology
From gradus (“step”) + -ātim.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡraˈdaː.tĩː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ɡraˈd̪aː.t̪im]
Adverb
gradātim (not comparable)
Quotations
- 1818, Washington Irving, The Analectic Magazine: Volume XI, page 397:
- Altera rursus jam a principio constituat generalia quædam abstracta et inutilia; altera gradatim exurgat a dea quæ reverà naturæ sunt notiora.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
- English: gradatim
References
- “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gradatim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers