gravid

English

WOTD – 30 July 2011

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹævɪd/

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Adjective

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

1. (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• gravidic
• gravidism
• gravidity
• gravidly
• gravidness
• multigravid
• nongravid
• nulligravid
• paucigravid
• pregravid

Translations

pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հղի (hy) (hġi)
• Bulgarian: бременна (bremenna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 怀孕的 (zh) (huáiyùn de), 妊娠的 (zh) (rènshēn de)

• Czech: těhotný (cs), gravidní, březí (cs)
• Dutch: zwanger (nl), drachtig (nl) (of non-human animals)
• Esperanto: graveda
• Finnish: gravidi (fi)
• French: gravide (fr)
• German: trächtig (de), gravid (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: gravid
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 妊娠した (ja) (にんしんした, ninshin shita), 身重 (ja) (みおも, miomo)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: gravidus
• Portuguese: grávida (pt) f
• Russian: бере́менная (ru) f (berémennaja), жерёбая f (žerjóbaja) (of ungulates)
• Spanish: grávido, embarazado (es), encinta (es) f
• Vietnamese: có thai

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

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.

Synonyms

• drægtig (of non-humans)
• frugtsommelig (archaic)
• med barn (“with child”)
• svanger (dated)
• ventende

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Adjective

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

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

• drektig (of non-humans)
• svanger

Derived terms

• graviditet
• høygravid

References

• “gravid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Adjective

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

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Synonyms

• drektig (of non-humans)
• svanger

Derived terms

• graviditet
• høggravid

References

• “gravid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈvid/

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

Declension of gravid

		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	gravidelor

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːd

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.

Derived terms

• höggravid (“heavily pregnant”)

Related terms

• graviditet (“pregnancy”)

See also

• dräktig (of non-humans)

References

• gravid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• vidgar