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gratissima

gratissima is a Latin form of gratus, meaning “pleasing, welcome; grateful”. It is the nominative singular feminine superlative adjective.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 40: … ordini restituit non solum dignitatem sed etiam voluptatem. itaque lex haec quae ad ludos pertinet est omnium gratissima, quod honestissimo ordini cum splendore fructus quoque iucunditatis est restitutus. qua re delectant homines, …

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 2.1.3: Gratissima sunt beneficia parata, facilia, occurrentia, ubi nulla mora fuit nisi in accipientis verecundia. Optimum est …

All forms of gratus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.