gratulor.
to congratulate (to express one's sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for)
Meaning & usage
to congratulate (to express one's sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for)
to rejoice
to give thanks
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin *grātulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -or ? Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-der. Proto-Italic *gʷrātis Old Latin *grātis Latin grātēs Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *tl̥néh₂ti ~ *tl̥nh₂énti Proto-Italic *tolnō Latin tollō Latin -tulor Latin *grātitulor? Latin grātulor Disputed. Possible solutions are: * From *grātulus + -or, from grātus (“beloved, dear, acceptable, pleasing, agreeable”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Confer grātor (“to manifest joy, wish joy, congratulate, rejoice with, rejoice”). * Haplologized from *grātitulor, from grātēs (“thanks, thanksgiving”) + -tulor, the latter from the root of tollō (“to lift, take up, raise, elevate, exalt”). Confer vītulor (“to cheer, exult”). Both derivations lead ultimately to the same root, Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise”).
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