gradatim

== English == === Etymology === Attested in English since 1575–1585: 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. 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… For more 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): [ɡraˈdaː.tim] === Adverb === gradātim (not comparable) step by step, gradually ==== 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