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gravitate

gravitate is a Latin form of gravitas, meaning “weight; seriousness, dignity, authority”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 192 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.58: … e ex onerariis navibus erant producti neque dum etiam vocabulis armamentorum cognitis, tum etiam tarditate et gravitate navium impediebantur; factae enim subito ex humida materia non eundem usum celeritatis habebant. Itaque, dum …

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 42.2: … rpitudinem et impudentiam edicto exprobrauit affirmauitque non daturum se quamuis dare destinaret. nec minore grauitate atque constantia, cum proposito congiario multos manumissos insertosque ciuium numero comperisset, negauit ac …

All forms of gravitas (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.