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gravissimis

gravissimis is a Latin form of gravis, meaning “heavy; serious; important”. It is the ablative plural feminine superlative adjective or ablative plural masculine superlative adjective or ablative plural neuter superlative adjective or dative plural feminine superlative adjective.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.199: quibus iniuriis gravissimis tamen illud erat miserum solacium, quod id perdere videbatur quod alio praetore eodem ex agro reparare posset …

Suetonius, Caligula 2.1: … ec dissimulans offendendum sibi aut patrem aut filium, quasi plane ita necesse esset, etiam aegrum Germanicum grauissimis uerborum ac rerum acerbitatibus nullo adhibito modo adfecit; propter quae, ut Romam rediit, paene discerptus …

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.