gratitude(n.)
mid-15c., "good will," from Medieval Latin
gratitudinem (nominative
gratitudo) "thankfulness," from Latin
gratus "thankful, pleasing" (reconstructed in Watkins to be from a suffixed form of PIE root
*gwere- (2) "to favor"). The meaning "thankfulness" is attested from 1560s.
also from mid-15c.Entries linking to gratitude
*gwere-(2)
gwerə-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to favor."It might form all or part of:
agree;
bard (n.);
congratulate;
congratulation;
disgrace;
grace;
gracious;
grateful;
gratify;
gratis;
gratitude;
gratuitous;
gratuity;
gratulation;
ingrate;
ingratiate.It might also be the source of: Sanskrit
grnati "sings, praises, announces;" Avestan
gar- "to praise;" Lithuanian
giriu, girti "to praise, celebrate;" Old Celtic
bardos "poet, singer."
