grevis
Latin
editEtymology
editBlend of gravis (“heavy”) + levis (“light”). Attested in a glossary[1] written in the eighth century CE.[2]
Adjective
editgrevis (neuter greve); third-declension two-termination adjective (Early Medieval Latin)
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: greve
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Spanish: grieve
- Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 407: “è pesante” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gravis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 265