The corpus record — Latin

gravesco

to become burdened

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 5 · 1.03/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

grăvesco — Lewis & Short

grăvesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [gravis], to become burdened or heavy (poet. and in postAug. prose).

I Lit.

A In gen.: fetu nemus omne gravescit, i. e. becomes loaded, filled, Verg. G. 2, 429.—

B In partic., to become pregnant: cameli lac habent, donec iterum gravescant, Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 236.—

II Trop., to become grievous or bad, to grow worse: aerumna gravescit, Lucr. 4, 1069: impetus, id. 6, 337: haec in morte, id. 3, 1022: valetudo Augusti, Tac. A. 1, 5: publica mala in dies, id. ib. 14, 51.—

B To be cumbered, embarrassed, Ambros. de Virg. 1, 6, 25: peccato gravescit oratio, id. in Psa. 118, Serm. 22, § 5.

In the wild

gravescunt Celsus, De Medicina 6.6.p29
gravescentibus Tacitus, Annales 14.p52
gravescant Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.1022
gravescere Tacitus, Annales 1.p5
gravescit Vergil, Georgicon 2.429
gravescere Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 37.1

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. grauésco (scan p. 306; entry #4816).

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