grazas
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the older graças, from Old Galician-Portuguese graça, borrowed from Latin gratia, as used in the phrase gratias agere (“to express thanks”).
Cognate with Portuguese graça, Spanish gracia, Italian grazia, Catalan gràcia, and French grâce.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aθas
- Rhymes: -asas
- Hyphenation: gra‧zas
Interjection
grazas
- (formal) thank you
- Synonyms: (familiar) graciñas; moitas grazas
Derived terms
- graciñas (literally “little thanks”)
- grazas a Deus (“Thank God”)
Noun
grazas
- plural of graza
References
- “graças” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “graças”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grazas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “gracia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega