different between gratulation vs gratulate

English

Etymology

From Latin gr?tul?ti?, from gr?tulor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ætj??le???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æt???le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: gra?tu?la?tion

Noun

gratulation (countable and uncountable, plural gratulations)

1. (now rare) A feeling of happiness and satisfaction; joy, especially at one's good fortune.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 206:

     Shattuck, all unaccustomed to the practical phenomena of digging, apprehended only cause of gratulation that the investigation was to be the less hindered.

2. (archaic) The expression of pleasure at someone's else's success or luck; congratulation.

Swedish

Noun

gratulation c

1. congratulation

Declension

Related terms

• gratulera
• grattis

English

Etymology

From Latin congr?t?lor

Verb

gratulate (third-person singular simple present gratulates, present participle gratulating, simple past and past participle gratulated)

1. (archaic) To express joy at (an event or situation).
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     To gratify the good Andronicus,

     And gratulate his safe return to Rome,

     The people will accept whom he admits.

   • 1604, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell, [Scene 8],^[2]

     […] his friends and nearest companions,

     Did gratulate his safetie with kinde words,

2. (archaic) To greet, welcome, salute.
   • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV, Scene 1,^[3]

     Queen Elizabeth. […] Whither away?

     Lady Anne. No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess,

     Upon the like devotion as yourselves,

     To gratulate the gentle princes there.

   • 1822, William Wordsworth, “Recovery” (Ecclesiastical Sketches/Sonnets, VII) in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827, Volume 3, p. 33,^[4]

     […] when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain

     Their cheerfulness, and busily retrim

     Their nests, or chant a gratulating hymn

     To the blue ether and bespangled plain;

   • 1881, James Thomson, “Two Sonnets,” II, in Vane’s Story, Weddah and Om-el-Bonain, and Other Poems, London: Reeves & Turner, p. 166,^[5]

     Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain

     Wild discords sadder than Grief’s saddest tune

     As if an owl with his harsh screech should strain

     To over-gratulate a thrush of June.

Adjective

gratulate (comparative more gratulate, superlative most gratulate)

1. (obsolete) Worthy of gratulation.
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1,^[6]

     Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:

     There’s more behind that is more gratulate.

Anagrams

• glutarate

Esperanto

Adverb

gratulate

1. present adverbial passive participle of gratuli

Latin

Participle

gr?tul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of gr?tul?tus