gravidus

From gravō + -idus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡra.wɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡraː.vi.d̪us]

gravidus (feminine gravida, neuter gravidum); first/second-declension adjective

1. pregnant, with child, gravid

   Synonym: praegnāns

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 215–216:

     DĀVUS: Ad haec mala hoc mī accēdit etiam: haec Andria — / sī ista uxor sīve amīcast — gravida ē Pamphilōst.

     DAVUS: Besides these troubles, another one is added for me: this Andrian woman — whether she’s his wife or mistress — is pregnant by Pamphilus.
     (amīcast = amīca elided with est; Pamphilōst = the character Pamphilus, ablative Pamphilōs, elided with est.)

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.633:

     nunc gravidum pecus est, gravidae quoque sēmine terrae

     Now the cattle are pregnant, likewise the lands laden with seed

2. full, filled, laden, abundant, teeming
3. burdened

First/second-declension adjective.

• graviditās
• gravidō

• “gravidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gravidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gravidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.