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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From βᾰρῠ́ς (barús, “heavy”) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.rý.tɛːs/ → /βaˈry.tis/ → /vaˈri.tis/
Noun
βᾰρῠ́της • (barútēs) f (genitive βᾰρῠ́τητος); third declension
- weight, heaviness
- heaviness of limb
- (of digestion)
- (of men) troublesomeness, importunity
- disagreeableness
- arrogance
- gravity
- (of sound) depth, low pitch
- (grammar) the grave accent
- absence of accent
- (rhetoric) adoption of an injured tone
Declension
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “depth, low pitch”): ὀξῠ́της (oxútēs)
- (antonym(s) of “the grave accent”): ὀξῠ́της (oxútēs)
Descendants
References
- “βαρύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βαρύτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βαρύτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βαρύτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- aggravation idem, page 18.
- deepness idem, page 203.
- dinginess idem, page 225.
- disagreeableness idem, page 227.
- heaviness idem, page 393.
- irksomeness idem, page 459.
- laboriousness idem, page 472.
- massiveness idem, page 516.
- objectionableness idem, page 565.
- obnoxiousness idem, page 566.
- odiousness idem, page 569.
- offensiveness idem, page 571.
- onerousness idem, page 574.
- oppressiveness idem, page 577.
- ponderosity idem, page 626.
- rankness idem, page 671.
- tediousness idem, page 859.
- tiresomeness idem, page 878.
- toilsomeness idem, page 880.
- troublesomeness idem, page 897.
- uncomfortableness idem, page 910.
- unpleasantness idem, page 927.
- unsatisfactoriness idem, page 931.
- vexatiousness idem, page 950.
- wearisomeness idem, page 970.
- weight idem, page 972.