gressus

From gradior +‎ -tus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡres.sus/, [ˈɡrɛs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡres.sus/, [ˈɡrɛsːus]

gressus m (genitive gressūs); fourth declension

1. A stepping, going; step, course, way.
2. A pace (as a measure of length).
3. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) (figuratively) step, move, action
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.14.15:

     Innocēns crēdit omnī verbō: astūtus cōnsīderat gressūs suōs.

     The innocent believeth every word: the discreet man considereth his steps.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

Fourth-declension noun.

Perfect active participle of gradior (“step, go, walk”).

gressus (feminine gressa, neuter gressum); first/second-declension participle

1. Stepped, walked, having stepped or walked, trodden.
2. Advanced, gone, having advanced or gone.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “gressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gressus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.