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English
Etymology
From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)
- (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, 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
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.
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Translations
Danish
Etymology
From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gravid
- pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
Inflection
Inflection of gravid
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Comparative
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Superlative
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Indefinte common singular
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gravid
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Indefinite neuter singular
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gravidt
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Plural
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gravide
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Definite attributive1
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gravide
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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.
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Synonyms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).
Adjective
gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)
- pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).
Adjective
gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)
- pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gravid m or n (feminine singular gravidă, masculine plural gravizi, feminine and neuter plural gravide)
- pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
- Synonyms: însărcinat, borțos
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gravid (not comparable)
- pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)
- Synonym: (somewhat formal) havande
Declension
Inflection of gravid
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Indefinite
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Comparative
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Superlative2
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Common singular
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gravid
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Neuter singular
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gravitt
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Plural
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gravida
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Masculine plural3
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gravide
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Definite
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Comparative
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Superlative
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Masculine singular1
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gravide
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gravida
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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
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