gravedo

English

Etymology

From Latin gravedo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

Noun

gravedo (plural gravedines)

1. (medicine, archaic) A cold in the head, or nasal catarrh.

Latin

Alternative forms

• gravīdō

Etymology

gravis +‎ -ēdō

Noun

gravēdō f (genitive gravēdinis); third declension

1. cold in the head
2. catarrh

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gravēdō	gravēdinēs
Genitive	gravēdinis	gravēdinum
Dative	gravēdinī	gravēdinibus
Accusative	gravēdinem	gravēdinēs
Ablative	gravēdine	gravēdinibus
Vocative	gravēdō	gravēdinēs

References

• “gravedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gravedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gravedo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gravedo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.