# gravitate
## English
### Etymology

Back-formation from gravitation. Or borrowed from New Latin gravito, gravitatus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɹævɪteɪt/
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* Hyphenation: grav‧i‧tate

### Verb

gravitate (third-person singular simple present gravitates, present participle gravitating, simple past and past participle gravitated)
* (intransitive, astrophysics) To move under the force of gravity.
** 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books, book II:Theſe, who have nature's ſteps with care purſued, That matter is with ac‍tive force endued, That all its parts magnetic power exert, And to each other gravitate, aſſert.
* (intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
    Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
    The guests slowly gravitated to the kitchen.
** 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
** 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:As the presence of any considerable number of priests on an ocean steamer is supposed to bring rough weather, so the addition of a few hundred parsons to the population of Edinburgh is believed to induce rain,—or perhaps I should say, more rain.
** 1923, Elbert Hubbard, J.B. Runs Things:Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
** 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:A considerable amount of new rolling stock has been built for the main line services during recent years, and the older stock has gravitated to the secondary and branch lines.
** 2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times‎:I lingered with seven new friends from Chicago on a back balcony, where concert attendees waiting to be convinced traditionally congregate. The more we drank, the farther up front we gravitated. I finished the show a few feet from the stage.

#### Derived terms

* antigravitate
* degravitate
* gravitative
* nongravitating
* selfgravitating

#### Translations

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### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gravitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “gravitate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

gravitate
* inflection of gravitare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

gravitate f pl
* feminine plural of gravitato

### Anagrams

* attergavi, rigettava

## Latin
### Noun

gravitāte
* ablative singular of gravitās

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gravitās; equivalent to grav +‎ -itate. Compare greutate, possibly an inherited doublet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡra.viˈta.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: gra‧vi‧ta‧te

### Noun

gravitate f (uncountable)
* gravity (seriousness, graveness)
* (dated) Synonym of gravitație (“force of gravity”).

#### Derived terms

* centru de gravitate

#### Related terms

* grav
* gravitație

### Further reading

* gravitate in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Verb

gravitate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of gravitar combined with te