The corpus record — Latin

gradatim

gradatim · adv

step by step

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Where it lives

Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Lucullus 2 · 1.11/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Letters 3 · 0.46/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

grădātim — Lewis & Short

grădātim, adv.id.,

I step by step, by degrees, little by little, gradually (class.; syn.: sensim, paulatim, pedetentim): nihil ita pedetentim et gradatim tum accessus a te ad causam facti, tum recessus, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 7: gradatim ascendere, id. de Or. 3, 61, 227; cf. id. Part. 15, 54: quid opus erat te gradatim istuc pervenire? Sumpsisses tuo jure. Quid autem est istuc gradatim? id. N. D. 1, 32, 89; cf.: gradatim respondens, id. Tusc. 1, 24, 57: ad pauciores deducere, id. ib. 2, 65, 164: cum gradatim sursum versus reditur, id. Or. 39, 135: captiosissimo genere interrogationis utuntur, cum aliquid minutatim et gradatim additur aut demitur, id. Ac. 2, 16, 49; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 4; Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 76: quos non una ut dicitur pertica, sed distincte gradatimque tractavi, Plin. Ep. 8, 2, 8; Gell. 14, 7, 9: amicos habere, by gradations, i. e. of different grades, Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 2.

In the wild

gradatim Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.8.6
gradatim Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.1.4
gradatim Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.164
gradatim Cicero, De Oratore 3.227
gradatim Cicero, Letters to Atticus 14.17A.7
gradatim Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.7.9

6 of 36 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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