Adjective: grave
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | grave |
| Singular f. | grave |
| Plural m. | graves |
| Plural f. | graves |
Sample Sentences
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Quatre de ces voyelles sont graves: a, o, u, œu. (Four of these are vowels are back [vowels], a, o, u, [and] œu) [1911, Diran Kélékian, “grave”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, Quelques mots sur la pronunciation des lettres Turques:]
Adjectives inflected like grave
emblématique,
antipianistique,
vanadique,
électrolysable,
sébacique,
aponévrotique,
fétichiste,
chromosomique,
archéographique,
fiduciaire,
judiciaire,
accusable,
monomyaire,
ontogénétique,
cinématique,
technétronique,
mélangeable,
neuropathique,
neurologique,
panchronique, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-us
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us
5. Proto-Italic *gʷraus
6. Latin gravis
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
12. Proto-Italic *-ājō
13. Proto-Italic *-āō
14. Latin -ō
15. Medieval Latin gravō
16. Medieval Latin gravader.
17. Old French grave
18. Middle French grave
19. French grave
20. Inherited from Middle French grave, borrowed from Latin gravis. Doublet of grief. See: Latin Adjectives '
gravis'.
Verbs referencing "grave"
Romanian Adjectives
grav, Swedish Adjectives
grav.
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