Adjective: greve
Hyphenation: grè‧ve
| Singular m. | greve |
| Singular f. | greve |
| Plural m. | grevi |
| Plural f. | grevi |
Sample Sentences
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Io sono al terzo cerchio, de la piova
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etterna, maladetta, fredda e greve (I'm at the Third Circle, [that] of the eternal, cursed, cold, and heavy rain) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 7–8; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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[…] Non molto andremo
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d’amor parlando omai, ché ’l duro et greve
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terreno incarco come frescha neve
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si va struggendo […] (We're not going to be talking about love for long now, for the hard and heavy earthly load melts away like fresh snow) [1336–1374, Francesco Petrarca, “XXXII — Quanto piú m’avicino al giorno extremo”, in Il Canzoniere, lines 5–8; republished as Daniele Ponchiroli, editor, Turin: publ. Giulio Einaudi, 1964:]
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un dì da greve doglia sospinto, ardito divenni oltre al dovere (One day, moved by a heavy grief, I became more daring than one should be) [1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione [Loving Vision], published 1833, page 150:]
Adjectives inflected like greve
soprasegmentale,
undicenne,
coscienziale,
collisionale,
superficiale,
retrodatabile,
bacillare,
ionizzante,
corbettese,
urlante,
antenuziale,
sovrabbondante,
multidimensionale,
rimbombevole,
moltiplicabile,
elettronucleare,
staccabile,
sovraprovinciale,
serale,
scritturale, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin grevem, alteration of Latin gravem. Doublet of grave. See: Latin Adjectives '
gravis'.
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