congratulate

• gratulate (archaic)

Borrowed from Latin congratulor, congratulatus, from con- +‎ gratulor, from gratus (“blessing”). By surface analysis, con- +‎ gratulate.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈɡɹæt͡ʃ.ʊˌleɪt/, /-t͡ʃ.ə-/

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• (US, sometimes) IPA^(key): /kənˈɡɹæd͡ʒ.ʊˌleɪt/, /-d͡ʒ.ə-/

congratulate (third-person singular simple present congratulates, present participle congratulating, simple past and past participle congratulated)

1. To express one’s sympathetic pleasure or joy to the person(s) it is felt for.

   Remind me to congratulate Dave and Lisa on their wedding.

   We must congratulate Dave and Lisa on getting married.

2. (reflexive) To consider oneself fortunate in some matter.

   I congratulated myself on the success of my plan.

congratulate

1. inflection of congratulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

congratulate f pl

1. feminine plural of congratulato

congrātulāte

1. vocative masculine singular of congrātulātus

congratulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of congratular combined with te