2022-08-01
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – gratis & gratuitous
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Ref.: http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/598367
Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง ”gratis” = “GRAT-is” or “GREY-tis”
ออกเสียง “gratuitous” = “gruh-TOO-i-tuhs” or “-TYOO”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
gratis
Did you know?
Gratis comes from the Latin word
for "favor;"
so in English
a party favor is a small item given gratis
to everyone attending a party.
Gratis is used as both an adjective
("The drinks were gratis")
and an adverb
("Drinks were served gratis").
But however it's used, it means "free".
Like gratitude, grace, and congratulate,
gratuitous is a descendant of the Latin word gratus,
which means "pleasing" or "grateful."
When gratuitous was first used in the 17th century,
it meant "free" or "given without
return benefit or compensation."
The extended meaning
"done without good reason" or
"unwarranted" came about just a few decades later,
perhaps from the belief held by some people
that one should not give something
without getting something in return.
Today, that extended meaning
is the more common sense, employed, for example,
when graphic cruelty depicted in a work of fiction
is described as "gratuitous violence,"
or when unkind words better left unsaid
are described as "a gratuitous insult."
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