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English

Etymology

Back-formation from gravitation. Or borrowed from New Latin gravito, gravitatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æv?teit/
• Hyphenation: grav?i?tate

Verb

gravitate (third-person singular simple present gravitates, present participle gravitating, simple past and past participle gravitated)

1. (intransitive, astrophysics) To move under the force of gravity.
   • 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books, book II:

     The?e, who have nature's ?teps with care pur?ued,
     That matter is with ac?tive force endued,
     That all its parts magnetic power exert,
     And to each other gravitate, a??ert.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.

   Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.

   • 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:

     The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

   • 1923, Elbert Hubbard, "J.B. Runs Things":

     Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Translations

References

• gravitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gravitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

gravitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of gravitare
2. second-person plural imperative of gravitare
3. feminine plural of gravitato

Anagrams

• rigettava

Latin

Noun

gravit?te

1. ablative singular of gravit?s

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gravité, Latin gravitas, gravitatem; equivalent to grav +? -itate. Compare greutate, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ra.vi?ta.te]

Noun

gravitate f (uncountable)

1. gravity, seriousness, graveness

Declension

Related terms

• grav
• gravita?ie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gravit?s (“weight, heaviness”). Doublet of gravity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???æv?t?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???æv.?.t??s/, /???æv.?.tæs/

Noun

gravitas (uncountable)

1. Seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
2. (figuratively) Substance, weight.

Usage notes

Sometimes used in a jocular or stilted sense.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• stravaig, vagarist

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?vitas/

Verb

gravitas

1. present of graviti

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: gravita, gravitât

Verb

gravitas

1. second-person singular past historic of graviter

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra?vitas/

Verb

gravitas

1. present of gravitar

Latin

Etymology

From gravis (“heavy”) +? -t?s.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??ra.u?i.ta?s/, [??räu??t?ä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??ra.vi.tas/, [??r??vit??s]

Noun

gravit?s f (genitive gravit?tis); third declension

1. weight, heaviness
2. gravity, seriousness
3. severity, harshness

4. importance, presence, influence
5. pregnancy

   Synonym: gravidit?s

6. unwholesomeness, heaviness (in affecting one's health)
7. fetidness, rankness, offensiveness
8. (New Latin, physics) gravity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

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)
• gravitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Verb

gravitas

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of gravitar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?bitas/, [??a???i.t?as]

Verb

gravitas

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of gravitar.