gravid

English

WOTD – 30 July 2011

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /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

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հղի (hłi)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: těhotný, gravidní, březí (cs)
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• French: gravide (fr)
• German: trächtig (de), gravid (de)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 妊娠した (にんしんした, ninshin shita), 身重 (ja) (みおも, miomo)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: grávida (pt) f, f pl
• Russian: бере́менная (ru) f (berémennaja), жерёбая (ru) f (žerjóbaja) (of ungulates)
• Spanish: grávido, embarazado (es)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

Adjective

gravid (neuter gravidt, definite and plural gravide)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

• svanger adj
• frugtsommelig adj

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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)