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gravitas
gravitas
See also: gravitás
English
Noun
gravitas (uncountable)
- Seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
- (figuratively) substance, weight.
- 2014 September 7, Natalie Angier, “The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
- Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere.
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Usage notes
Frequently used in a jocular or stilted sense.
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Latin
Etymology
From gravis (“heavy”) + -itās
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.wi.taːs/
Noun
gravitās f (genitive gravitātis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gravitās | gravitātēs |
| genitive | gravitātis | gravitātum |
| dative | gravitātī | gravitātibus |
| accusative | gravitātem | gravitātēs |
| ablative | gravitāte | gravitātibus |
| vocative | gravitās | gravitātēs |
Synonyms
- (pregnancy): graviditās
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References
- gravitas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gravitas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- GRAVITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gravitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- healthy climate: caelum salūbre, salubritas caeli (opp. grave, gravitas)
- healthy climate: caelum salūbre, salubritas caeli (opp. grave, gravitas)