graviter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin gravitāre, from Latin gravitas.
Pronunciation
Verb
graviter
Conjugation
Conjugation of graviter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | graviter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gravitant /ɡʁa.vi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gravité /ɡʁa.vi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravites /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravitons /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/ |
gravitez /ɡʁa.vi.te/ |
gravitent /ɡʁa.vit/ |
| imperfect | gravitais /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ |
gravitais /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ |
gravitait /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ |
gravitions /ɡʁa.vi.tjɔ̃/ |
gravitiez /ɡʁa.vi.tje/ |
gravitaient /ɡʁa.vi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gravitai /ɡʁa.vi.te/ |
gravitas /ɡʁa.vi.ta/ |
gravita /ɡʁa.vi.ta/ |
gravitâmes /ɡʁa.vi.tam/ |
gravitâtes /ɡʁa.vi.tat/ |
gravitèrent /ɡʁa.vi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | graviterai /ɡʁa.vi.tʁe/ |
graviteras /ɡʁa.vi.tʁa/ |
gravitera /ɡʁa.vi.tʁa/ |
graviterons /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɔ̃/ |
graviterez /ɡʁa.vi.tʁe/ |
graviteront /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | graviterais /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ |
graviterais /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ |
graviterait /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ |
graviterions /ɡʁa.vi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
graviteriez /ɡʁa.vi.tə.ʁje/ |
graviteraient /ɡʁa.vi.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravites /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
gravitions /ɡʁa.vi.tjɔ̃/ |
gravitiez /ɡʁa.vi.tje/ |
gravitent /ɡʁa.vit/ |
| imperfect2 | gravitasse /ɡʁa.vi.tas/ |
gravitasses /ɡʁa.vi.tas/ |
gravitât /ɡʁa.vi.ta/ |
gravitassions /ɡʁa.vi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
gravitassiez /ɡʁa.vi.ta.sje/ |
gravitassent /ɡʁa.vi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gravite /ɡʁa.vit/ |
— | gravitons /ɡʁa.vi.tɔ̃/ |
gravitez /ɡʁa.vi.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “graviter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From gravis (“heavy”) + -ter.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡra.wɪ.tɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.vi.t̪er]
Adverb
graviter (comparative gravius, superlative gravissimē)
- heavily, weightily, ponderously
- strongly, violently
- (figuratively) severely, harshly
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 191:
- SĪMŌ: Omnēs qui amant graviter sibi darī uxōrem ferunt.
- SIMO: All [young men] who have love affairs — they can hardly endure [it] when they’re given a wife.
(Speaking with comical irony, Simo knows that his son loves the woman from Andros, and yet Simo has arranged for him to marry another woman instead.)
- SIMO: All [young men] who have love affairs — they can hardly endure [it] when they’re given a wife.
- SĪMŌ: Omnēs qui amant graviter sibi darī uxōrem ferunt.
Related terms
References
- “graviter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “graviter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “graviter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be seriously ill: vehementer, graviter aeogratare, iacēre
- to sleep soundly (from fatigue): arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
- I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)
- to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
- to deal severely with a person: graviter consulere in aliquem (Liv. 8. 13)
- to be seriously ill: vehementer, graviter aeogratare, iacēre