gravid

English
WOTD – 30 July 2011

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

  1. (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
    • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎, London: Chatto & Windus:
      In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
      The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:
      One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507:
      The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

Adjective

gravid

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Inflection
Inflection of gravid
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular gravid — —2
Neuter singular gravidt — —2
Plural gravide — —2
Definite attributive1 gravide — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Synonyms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Adjective

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Adjective

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡraˈvid/

Adjective

gravid m or n (feminine singular gravidă, masculine plural gravizi, feminine and neuter plural gravide)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Declension
Declension of gravid
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite gravid gravidă gravizi gravide
definite gravidul gravida gravizii gravidele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite gravid gravide gravizi gravide
definite gravidului gravidei gravizilor gravidelor

Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -iːd

Adjective

gravid (not comparable)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)
    Synonym: (somewhat formal) havande

Declension
Inflection of gravid
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular gravid — —
Neuter singular gravitt — —
Plural gravida — —
Masculine plural3 gravide — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 gravide — —
All gravida — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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