# gravid
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɡɹævɪd/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)
* (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
** 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎, London: Chatto & Windus: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 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC: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, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
** 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507: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.

#### Derived terms

* gravidic
* gravidism
* gravidity
* gravidness

#### Translations
## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡraviːd/, [ɡ̊ʁɑˈviðˀ]

### Adjective

gravid
* pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

#### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

#### Synonyms

* drægtig (of non-humans)
* frugtsommelig (archaic)
* med barn (“with child”)
* svanger (dated)
* ventende

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

### Adjective

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)
* pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

#### Synonyms

* drektig (of non-humans)
* svanger

#### Derived terms

* graviditet
* høygravid

### References

* “gravid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

### Adjective

gravid (neuter singular gravid, definite singular and plural gravide)
* pregnant (carrying an unborn child)

#### Synonyms

* drektig (of non-humans)
* svanger

#### Derived terms

* graviditet
* høggravid

### References

* “gravid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gravide, Italian gravido, Latin gravidus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡraˈvid/

### Adjective

gravid m or n (feminine singular gravidă, masculine plural gravizi, feminine and neuter plural gravide)
* pregnant (carrying an unborn child)
    Synonyms: însărcinat, borțos

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin gravidus (“pregnant”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iːd

### Adjective

gravid (not (comparable))
* pregnant (carrying an unborn child, generally only applied to humans)
    Synonym: (somewhat formal) havande
    Hon blev gravid när hon hade sexShe got pregnant when she had sex
    vara gravid i sjunde månadenbe seven months pregnant(literally, “be pregnant in the seventh month”)

#### Usage notes

Neuter ("gravitt" or the like) is avoided.

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

#### Derived terms

* höggravid (“heavily pregnant”)

#### Related terms

* graviditet (“pregnancy”)

#### See also

* dräktig (of non-humans)

### References

* gravid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* gravid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* vidgar