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Latin
Etymology
From gradior (“to walk, to step forward”) + -īvus. Literally, “he who walks, who steps forward”.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “any explanation for -ā-? apparently -a- is a hapax in Ovid”)
Noun
Grādīvus m sg (genitive Grādīvī); second declension
- An epithet of Mars
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Gradivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Gradivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.