gravid

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹavɪd/

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

1. Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Chrome 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

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

     One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.

   • 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

gravid

1. pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

• drægtig (of non-humans)
• frugtsommelig (archaic)
• med barn
• svanger (dated)
• ventende

From Latin gravidus

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

1. pregnant

• svanger

• graviditet
• høygravid

• “gravid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin gravidus

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)

1. pregnant

• svanger

• graviditet
• høggravid

• “gravid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.

• IPA^(key): /ɡraˈvid/

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

1. pregnant

• însărcinat, borțos

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gravid (neuter gravitt, definite and plural gravida)

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