Charites, um, f., = Χάριτες, the Charites or Graces (pure Lat. Gratiae), usu. three, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia (cf., however, Lidd. and Scott under the word), Ov. F. 5, 219; Sen. Ben. 1, 4, 4; Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 32.

—In sing. acc. Gr. Charita, one of the Graces, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 79.