gravid

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English

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (laden, pregnant), from gravis (heavy).

Pronunciation

Adjective

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

  1. (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
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:
      One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
    • 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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Danish

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (laden, pregnant), from gravis (heavy).

Pronunciation

Adjective

gravid

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Inflection

Inflection of gravid
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular gravid 2
indefinite neuter singular gravidt 2
plural gravide 2
definite attributive1 gravide

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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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (pregnant).

Adjective

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

  1. 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)

  1. 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)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
    Synonyms: însărcinat, borțos

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite gravid gravidă gravizi gravide
definite gravidul gravida gravizii gravidele
genitive-
dative
indefinite gravid gravide gravizi gravide
definite gravidului gravidei gravizilor gravidilor

Swedish

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Etymology

From Latin gravidus (pregnant).

Pronunciation

Adjective

gravid (not comparable)

  1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)
    Synonym: (somewhat formal) havande
    Hon blev gravid när hon hade sex
    She got pregnant when she had sex
    vara gravid i sjunde månaden
    be seven months pregnant
    (literally, “be pregnant in the seventh month”)

Usage notes

Neuter ("gravitt" or the like) is avoided.

Declension

Inflection of gravid
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular gravid
neuter singular gravitt
plural gravida
masculine plural2 gravide
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 gravide
all gravida

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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