gravid

English

WOTD – 30 July 2011    

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɹavɪd/

Adjective

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

1. Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     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

     One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 568:

     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.

Translations

pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically

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• Armenian: հղի (hy) (hłi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 怀孕的 (cmn) (huáiyùn de), 妊娠的 (cmn) (rènshēn de)

• Czech: těhotný (cs), gravidní (cs), březí (cs)
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• Japanese: 妊娠した (ja) (にんしんした, ninshin shita), 身重 (ja) (みおも, miomo)
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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

Adjective

gravid (neuter gravidt, definite and plural gravide)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

• svanger a
• frugtsommelig a

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

gravid (neuter gravid, definite and plural gravida)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)