grief
English
/ɡɹiːf/
noun
Definitions
- Suffering, hardship.
- Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English greef borrowed from Old French grief (grave, heavy, sad, grievous) derived from Latin gravis (heavy, grave, important, sad, grievous) root from Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- (heavy, strong).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʷreh₂-
Gloss
heavy, strong
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aggravate English
- agrief English
- antigravitation English
- autogravitation English
- bariatric English
- baric English
- barium English
- barometer English
- brutality English
- brutish English
- degravitation English
- graveness English
- gravidly English
- gravigrade English
- gravimeter English
- gravimetric English
- gravimetry English
- gravitational English
- graviton English
- gravity English
- grief-struck English
- griefer English
- griefful English
- grieffully English
- griefless English
- grieflessly English
- grieflessness English
- grieflike English
- griefsome English
- griefwork English
- grieve English
- grieven English
- heart English
- heartgrief English
- hyperbaric English
- isobar English
- isobaric English
- multigravid English
- struck English
- supergravitation English
- supergravity English
- ungrief English
- work English
- *grevis Latin
- *ingrevicāre Latin
- *ingrevicō Latin
- *ingrevinō Latin
- brūtus Latin
- gravare Latin
- gravedo Latin
- gravida Latin
- gravidus Latin
- gravis Latin
- gravitas Latin
- gravitatio Latin
- graviter Latin
- gravito, gravitatus Latin
- gravitās Latin
- gravitātiō Latin
- gravo Latin
- gravo, gravō, gravāre Latin
- gravō Latin
- grevis Latin
- pergravis Latin
- praegravis Latin
- Gravis German
- briga Italian
- grave Italian
- brigade French
- brigadier French
- grave French
- grief French
- грифер Russian
- βάρος Ancient Greek
- βαρύτης Ancient Greek
- *gʷreh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷrih₂-g- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷréh₂us Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷréh₂wō Proto-Indo-European
- *ud- Proto-Indo-European
- गुरु Sanskrit
- greef Middle English
- grief Old French
- grievance Old French
- grava Esperanto
- greață Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- îngreuna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- grief Middle Dutch
- aggravation Middle French
- grave Old Portuguese
- greatsã Aromanian
- grave Old Spanish
- گریوا Bakhtiari
- work
- baric
- heart
- grieve
- struck
- agrief
- isobar
- barium
- griefer
- gravity
- brutish
- grieven
- ungrief
- isobaric
- graviton
- gravidly
- griefful
- aggravate
- barometer
- bariatric
- brutality
- graveness
- griefless
- griefwork
- griefsome
- grieflike
- grieffully
- heartgrief
- gravimeter
- gravigrade
- gravimetry
- hyperbaric
- multigravid
- gravimetric
- grieflessly
- supergravity
- grief-struck
- grieflessness
- gravitational
- degravitation
- autogravitation
- antigravitation
- supergravitation