gratis

Borrowed from Latin gratis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑː.tɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːtɪs
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹætɪs/
• Hyphenation: grat‧is

gratis (not comparable)

1. Free: without charge.

   Synonyms: costless, feeless, free of charge; free as in beer

   Antonym: see at nonfree

   Coordinate terms: libre, free as in speech

   • 2010 September 27, Ann Charters, Samuel Charters, quoting John Clellon Holmes, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation‎^[2], →ISBN, page 162:

     Really syncophant^[sic] stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.

gratis (not comparable)

1. In a free way: without charge.

   Synonyms: costlessly, free of charge

   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.

   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 45:

     Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?

• striga, trigas

From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈχrɑːtəs/, [ˈχrɔːtəs]

• Audio:

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gratis

1. free, without charge

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾa.tis]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Learned borrowing from Latin grātīs.

gratis

1. free, for free

   Synonyms: de franc, gratuïtament

gratis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of gratar

• “gratis”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin grātīs.

• IPA^(key): [ɡraːtɪs]

gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: zdarma, zadarmo, zadarmiko, zadara

• “gratis”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “gratis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “gratis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːtis/, [ˈɡ̊ʁɑːd̥is]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gra‧tis

gratis (neuter gratis, plural and definite singular attributive gratis)

1. gratis, free (obtainable without payment)

gratis

1. gratis, free (without needing to pay)

Borrowed from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣraːtɪs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: gra‧tis

gratis (not comparable)

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: kosteloos, koefnoen

Declension of gratis
uninflected	gratis
inflected	gratis
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		gratis
indefinite	m./f. sing.	gratis
	n. sing.	gratis
	plural	gratis
definite		gratis
partitive		gratis

• Afrikaans: gratis
• → Caribbean Javanese: gratis
• → Indonesian: gratis
• → Javanese: ꦒꦿꦠꦶꦱ꧀ (gratis)
• → Malay: gratis

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡratis/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atis
• Syllabification: gra‧tis

gratis

1. past of grati

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.tis/

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gratis

1. free, without charge, gratis

   Synonym: gratuitement

gratis (invariable)

1. free; for free, without charge

   Synonym: gratuit

• “gratis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• grátis (reintegrationist)

From Latin gratis.

• Rhymes: -atis
• Hyphenation: gra‧tis

gratis (invariable)

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: gratuíto, de balde

gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: gratuitamente, de balde

• “gratis”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʁaːtɪs/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: umsonst, kostenlos, kostenfrei, (colloquial) für lau, für umme

• “gratis” in Duden online
• “gratis”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)

Borrowed from Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡratis/ [ˈɡra.t̪ɪs]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atis
• Syllabification: gra‧tis

gratis (comparative lebih gratis, superlative paling gratis)

1. free, without charge

   Synonyms: cuma-cuma, percuma

   Aku dapat kopi ini secara gratis. ― I got this coffee for free.

• “gratis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Latin gratis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.tis/
• Rhymes: -atis
• Hyphenation: grà‧tis

gratis

1. for free, gratis

   Synonym: gratuitamente

gratis (invariable)

1. free

   Synonym: gratuito

• a gratis

• gratis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• stragi, striga

Contracted from grātiīs.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.tiːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.tis]

grātīs (not comparable)

1. out of favor or kindness, without recompense or compensation, gratuitously, freely

• grātuītō

• "gratis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gratis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing costs nothing: aliquid nihilo or gratis constat
    

From Dutch gratis, from Latin grātīs, contraction of grātiīs.

• (Indonesia) IPA^(key): /ˈɡratis/ [ˈɡra.t̪is]
• Rhymes: -atis, -is
• Hyphenation: gra‧tis

gratis (Jawi spelling ݢراتيس, comparative lebih gratis, superlative paling gratis) (Indonesia)

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: percuma (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• "gratis" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

gratis (indeclinable)

1. free (obtainable without payment)

• gratisavis

• “gratis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin grātīs.

gratis (indeclinable)

1. free (obtainable without payment)

• gratisavis

• “gratis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin grātīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.tis/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atis
• Syllabification: gra‧tis

gratis m inan

1. perquisite, free gift

gratis (not comparable)

1. gratis, free of charge

   Synonyms: bezpłatnie, darmo, darmowo, nieodpłatnie, za darmo

   Antonyms: odpłatnie, płatnie

• “gratis”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “gratis”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[6] (in Polish)

gratis (not comparable)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of grátis

• гратис (gratis) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from Latin gratis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.tis/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -atis
• Hyphenation: gra‧tis

gratis

1. free of charge, for free

gratis m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. free of charge, for free

• “gratis”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

From Latin grātīs. Compare English grace.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾatis/ [ˈɡɾa.t̪is]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -atis
• Syllabification: gra‧tis

gratis (invariable)

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: gratuito

gratis

1. free, without charge

   Synonym: gratuitamente

• “gratis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “gratis”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Borrowed from Latin grātiīs. First attested in 1638^[1].

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɑːtiːs/

• Audio:

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gratis (not comparable)

1. free, without charge [since 1638]^[1]

gratis (not inflected, not comparable)

1. free, without charge [since 1850]^[1]

• Generally, when something is gratis, it is entirely free of charge in every way.^[2] If something is included at no extra cost with a purchase, it is på köpet (literally “on the purchase”). Note, however, that this distinction is weaker in colloquial contexts.

• grattis (“congratulation”)

• “gratis”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• gratis in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• girats, stigar, trasig