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gravia

gravia is a Latin form of gravis, meaning “heavy; serious; important”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 94 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.14.10: haec si gravia aut acerba videantur, multo illa gravius aestimare, liberos, coniuges in servitutem abstrahi, ipsos interfici; quae sit necesse accidere victis.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.20: … um Deianira sanguine Centauri tinctam tunicam induisset inhaesissetque ea visceribus, ait ille: O múlta dictu grávia, perpessu áspera, Quae córpore exancláta atque animo pértuli! Nec míhi Iunonis térror inplacábilis Nec tántum …

Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 16.1: … in qua merito culpetur, pecuniae cupiditas. non enim contentus omissa sub Galba uectigalia reuocasse, noua et grauia addidisse, auxisse tributa prouinciis, nonnullis et duplicasse, negotiationes quoque uel priuato pudendas pro …

All forms of gravis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.