gratilla

Possibly from grātia (“grace, thankfulness”) +‎ -illa (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡraːˈtɪl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡraˈt̪il.la]

grātilla f (genitive grātillae); first declension

1. A kind of cake

   • c. 303 CE, Arnobius, Against the Pagans 7.24:

     Quid fitilla, quid frumen, quid africia, quid gratilla, catumeum, conspolium, cubula? [....] Series vero, quae sequitur, liborum significantias continet

     What is the meaning of fitilla, frumen, africia, gratilla, catumeum, cumspolium, cubula? [....] while the series of names which follows denotes consecrated cakes.

First-declension noun.

• “gratilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gratilla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.