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Verb
gravo
- first-person singular present indicative of gravar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡra.vo/
- Rhymes: -avo
- Hyphenation: grà‧vo
Verb
gravo
- first-person singular present indicative of gravare
Latin
Etymology
From gravis (“heavy”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
gravō (present infinitive gravāre, perfect active gravāvī, supine gravātum); first conjugation
- to burden, weigh down, oppress
- Synonyms: aggravō, ingravō, premō, opprimō
- to make pregnant
- to aggravate, make worse
- Synonyms: ingravō, aggravō, onerō
- to refuse, dislike, shun
Conjugation
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Descendants
References
- “gravo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gravo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gravo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) cogent, decisive reasons: magnae (graves) necessariae causae
- (ambiguous) men of sound opinions: homines graves (opp. leves)
- (ambiguous) to be (heavily) punished by some one: poenas (graves) dare alicui
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō.
Noun
grāvo m
- count; servant of the king with a specific supervisory task
Inflection
Declension of grāvo (masculine an-stem noun)
Descendants
Further reading
- “grāvo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
- Hyphenation: gra‧vo
Verb
gravo
- first-person singular present indicative of gravar
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
gravo
- first-person singular present indicative of gravar