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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɡˈɡra.vo/
- Rhymes: -avo
- Hyphenation: ag‧grà‧vo
Verb
aggravo
- first-person singular present indicative of aggravare
Latin
Etymology
From ad- + gravō (“weigh down; oppress”).
Pronunciation
Verb
aggravō (present infinitive aggravāre, perfect active aggravāvī, supine aggravātum); first conjugation
- to add to or increase the weight of, make heavier, weigh down
- Synonyms: gravō, ingravō
- (figuratively) to make worse or more dangerous, aggravate
- Synonyms: gravō, ingravō, onerō
- (figuratively) to oppress, burden, annoy
- Synonyms: gravō, ingravō, premō, opprimō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “aggravo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aggravo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aggravo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.