different between gavid vs gravid

English

Noun

gavid (plural gavids)

1. (zoology) Alternative form of gaviid.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /???æv?d/

Adjective

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

1. pregnant (now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically)
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow:

     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, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     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

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 568:

     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

Translations

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ravi?d/, [?????við?]

Adjective

gravid

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Inflection

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): /?ra?vid/

Adjective

gravid m or n (feminine singular gravid?, masculine plural gravizi, feminine and neuter plural gravide)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

Declension

Synonyms

• îns?rcinat, bor?os

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?d

Adjective

gravid (not comparable)

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)

Declension

See also

• dräktig (of non-humans)

Anagrams

• vidgar