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graviore

graviore is a Latin form of gravis, meaning “heavy; serious; important”. It is the ablative singular feminine comparative adjective or ablative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 60 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.48.6: cum his in proeliis versabantur, ad eos se equites recipiebant; hi, si quid erat durius, concurrebant, si qui graviore vulnere accepto equo deciderat, circumsistebant;

Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.203: omnia praestiteris.” Graviore novissima dixit

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 5.1: … it constitutum. nam ut senatus actis continetur, cum C. Laetorius, adulescens patricii generis, in deprecanda grauiore adulterii poena praeter aetatem atque natales hoc quoque patribus conscriptis allegaret, esse possessorem ac …

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.