gravitas
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin gravitās (“weight, heaviness”)
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[edit] Noun
gravitas (uncountable)
- Seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
- (figuratively) substance, weight.
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Frequently used in a jocular or stilted sense.
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gravitas
- present of graviti
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gravitas
- second-person singular past historic of graviter
[edit] Latin
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From gravis (“heavy”) + -itās
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gravitās (genitive gravitātis); f, third declension
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- (pregnancy): graviditās
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gravitas
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gravitas (infinitive gravitar)
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