different between gravity vs gravitas

English

Etymology

16th century, learned borrowing from Latin gravit?s (“weight”) (compare French gravité), from gravis (“heavy”). Doublet of gravitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???æv?ti/
• Hyphenation: grav?i?ty

Noun

gravity (countable and uncountable, plural gravities)

1. The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
2. The state or condition of being grave; seriousness.

3. (music) The lowness of a note.
4. (physics) Force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.
5. (in casual discussion, also) Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
6. (physics) Specific gravity.

Synonyms

• weightfulness
• The state or condition of being grave: graveness, seriousness

Derived terms

• anti-gravity
• centre of gravity
• gravitation
• graviton
• gravity-assist
• gravity drag
• gravity turn
• gravity wave
• microgravity
• quantum gravity
• zero gravity

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “gravity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

• Gravitation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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.