gravid

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English

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

  1. (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
    • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow[1], 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, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: 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.

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Danish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

Adjective

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gravid

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Inflection

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Inflection of gravid
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular gravid 2
Indefinite 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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin gravidus (pregnant).

Adjective

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

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin gravidus (pregnant).

Adjective

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

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.

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Adjective

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

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
    Synonyms: însărcinat, borțos

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Etymology

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From Latin gravidus (pregnant).

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Adjective

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gravid (not comparable)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)
    Synonym: (somewhat formal) havande
    Hon blev gravid när hon hade sex
    She got pregnant when she had sex
    vara gravid i sjunde månaden
    be seven months pregnant
    (literally, “be pregnant in the seventh month”)

Usage notes

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Neuter ("gravitt" or the like) is avoided.

Declension

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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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