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graviores

graviores is a Latin form of gravis, meaning “heavy; serious; important”. It is the accusative plural masculine comparative adjective or accusative plural feminine comparative adjective or nominative plural masculine comparative adjective or vocative plural masculine comparative adjective.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.74: … amiae sarciendae, ut nemo aut tribuni aut centurionis imperium desideraret, et sibi quisque etiam poenae loco graviores imponeret labores, simulque omnes arderent cupiditate pugnandi, cum superioris etiam ordinis nomini Ii ration …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 84.2: … ediscendo tempus absumeret, instituit recitare omnia. sermones quoque cum singulis atque etiam cum Liuia sua grauiores non nisi scriptos et e libello habebat, ne plus minusue loqueretur ex tempore. pronuntiabat dulci et proprio …

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.