gratulate

== English == === Etymology === First attested circa 1567; borrowed from Latin grātulātus, perfect active participle of grātulor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (verb) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹætjʊleɪt/, /ˈɡɹætʃəleɪt/ (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹætjʊlət/, /ˈɡɹætʃələt/ === Verb === gratulate (third-person singular simple present gratulates, present participle gratulating, simple past and past participle gratulated) (archaic) To express joy at (an event or situation). (archaic) To greet, welcome, salute. 1822, William Wordsworth, “Recovery” (Ecclesiastical Sketches/Sonnets, VII) in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827, Volume 3, p. 33,[1] […] when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain / Their cheerfulness, and busily retrim / Their nests, or chant a gratulating hymn / To the blue ether and bespangled plain; 1881, James Thomson, “Two Sonnets,” II, in Vane’s Story, Weddah and Om-el-Bonain, and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, p. 166,[2] Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain / Wild discords sadder than Grief’s saddest tune / As if an owl with his harsh screech should strain / To over-gratulate a thrush of June. === Adjective === gratulate (comparative more gratulate, superlative most gratulate) (obsolete) Worthy of gratulation. === Anagrams === glutarate == Esperanto == === Adverb === gratulate present adverbial passive participle of gratuli == Latin == === Participle === grātulāte vocative masculine singular of grātulātus