gravitas
See also: gravitás
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin gravitās (“weight, heaviness”). Doublet of gravity.
Pronunciation
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Noun
gravitas (uncountable)
- seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity
- (figuratively) substance, weight
- 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere.
Usage notes
Frequently used in a jocular or stilted sense.
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Esperanto
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Verb
gravitas
- present of graviti
French
Pronunciation
Verb
gravitas
- second-person singular past historic of graviter
Ido
Pronunciation
Verb
(deprecated template usage) gravitas
- present of gravitar
Latin
Etymology
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From gravis (“heavy”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.u̯i.taːs/, [ˈɡräu̯ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.vi.tas/, [ˈɡräːvit̪äs]
Noun
gravitās f (genitive gravitātis); third declension
- weight, heaviness
- severity, harshness
- importance, presence, influence
- gravity
- pregnancy
- Synonym: graviditās
- (New Latin, physics) gravity
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gravitās | gravitātēs |
Genitive | gravitātis | gravitātum |
Dative | gravitātī | gravitātibus |
Accusative | gravitātem | gravitātēs |
Ablative | gravitāte | gravitātibus |
Vocative | gravitās | gravitātēs |
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References
- “gravitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gravitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gravitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gravitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- healthy climate: caelum salūbre, salubritas caeli (opp. grave, gravitas)
- healthy climate: caelum salūbre, salubritas caeli (opp. grave, gravitas)
Portuguese
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gravitas
Spanish
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Verb
gravitas
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