gravid

English

WOTD – 30 July 2011

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹævɪd/

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Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• gravidic
• gravidism
• gravidity
• gravidness

 

Translations

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

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հղի (hy) (hġi)
• Bulgarian: бременна (bremenna)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: těhotný (cs), gravidní, březí (cs)
• Dutch: zwanger (nl), drachtig (nl) (of non-human animals)
• Esperanto: graveda
• Finnish: gravidi (fi)
• 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 (ja) (にんしんした, ninshin shita), 身重 (ja) (みおも, miomo)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: gravidus
• Portuguese: grávida (pt) f
• Russian: бере́менная (ru) f (berémennaja), жерёбая f (žerjóbaja) (of ungulates)
• Spanish: grávido, embarazado (es), encinta (es) f
• Vietnamese: có thai

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
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.

Synonyms

• drægtig (of non-humans)
• frugtsommelig (archaic)
• med barn (“with child”)
• svanger (dated)
• ventende

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Adjective

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

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

• drektig (of non-humans)
• svanger

Derived terms

• graviditet
• høygravid

References

• “gravid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Adjective

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

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

• drektig (of non-humans)
• svanger

Derived terms

• graviditet
• høggravid

References

• “gravid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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)

   Synonyms: însărcinat, borțos

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	gravidilor

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

See also

• dräktig (of non-humans)

References

• gravid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• vidgar