Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A rating. · Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. · A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality. · Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”).
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