gravitas
Latin
noun
Definitions
- weight, heaviness
- gravity, seriousness
- severity, harshness
- importance, presence, influence
- pregnancy
- unwholesomeness, heaviness in affecting one's health
- fetidness, rankness, offensiveness
- (New Latin) gravity
Etymology
Affix 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
強
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aggravate 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
- hyperbaric English
- isobar English
- isobaric English
- multigravid English
- supergravitation English
- supergravity English
- *grevis Latin
- *ingrevicāre Latin
- *ingrevicō Latin
- *ingrevinō Latin
- brūtus Latin
- gravare Latin
- gravedo Latin
- gravida Latin
- gravidus Latin
- gravis Latin
- gravitatio Latin
- graviter Latin
- gravito, gravitare 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
- graviter French
- 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
- grief Old French
- grievance Old French
- grava Esperanto
- greață Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- îngreuna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- aggravation Middle French
- grave Old Portuguese
- greatsã Aromanian
- grave Old Spanish