Gracious
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Middle English: via Old French from Latin gratiosus, from gratia ‘esteem, favour’ (see grace).
wiktionary
From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia(“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold(“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.
etymonline
gracious (adj.)
c. 1300, "filled with God's grace," from Old French gracios "courteous, pleasing, kind, friendly" (12c., Modern French gracieux), from Latin gratiosus "enjoying favor, agreeable, obliging; popular, acceptable," from gratia "favor" (from suffixed form of PIE root *gwere- (2) "to favor"). Meaning "merciful, benevolent" is from late 14c. As an exclamation, elliptically for gracious God, attested from 1713.
