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Italian
Etymology
From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡra.vi.do/
- Rhymes: -avido
- Hyphenation: grà‧vi‧do
Adjective
gravido (feminine gravida, masculine plural gravidi, feminine plural gravide)
- pregnant, gravid
- fraught, full, heavily laden
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From gravidus (“pregnant; laden”) + -ō.
Verb
gravidō (present infinitive gravidāre, perfect active gravidāvī, supine gravidātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to burden, load
- (transitive) to impregnate
Conjugation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
gravidō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of gravidus
References
- “gravido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gravido”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gravido in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- gravido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.