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“grave” in Latin
gravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardsevērussevere, serious, strict, stern, stringent, austere, harsh, grave (in demeanor)sēriusgrave; earnest; serioustrīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)sevēritāsseriousness, gravity, sternness, strictness, severitygravitāsweight, heaviness; gravity, seriousness; severity, harshnessaustēritāsbitterness, harshness, sourness, astringency; darkness, dinginess, sombreness; severity, austerity, strictness, sternnesaustērusaustere, plain; harsh, bitter, sour; sharp, pungent, tartnigricānsblackish, swarthyfuscusswarthy, dusky, dark; husky, hoarse
The English word grave itself goes back to Latin gravis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
grave adj.
gravis: severus: serius. (The words are found in this connection and order.) gravis seriusque [SYN. in EARNEST]: tristis: a grave character, severitas: gravitas: austeritas. To assume a grave look, or make a grave face, vultum ad severitatem componere; also, vultum componere only: in a grave tone of voice, e.g., to converse with anybody, severe sermonem cum aliquo conferre (☞ Tit., in Non., 509, sq.): to look grave, vultum composuisse: to keep a grave look, vultum non mutare: to speak of anything in a grave tone, severitatem adhibere (e.g., de seriis rebus, Cic.): grave discourse, serius sermo (opposed to jocus): grave demeanor, mores temperati moderatique.
Of colors; sombre, etc.; austerus (opposed to floridus): nigricans: fuscus. [Vid: DARK (end).] To be of a grave color, colore nigricare.
grave s.
sepulcrum (anyplace where a corpse is buried): bustum (the place where a dead body was burned and buried; then general term for grave, as place of interment; also FIG., like pestis or pestis ac pernicies, of a person or thing that is the ruin of another; e.g., Piso, bustum reipublicae; bustum legum; Vid: Cic., Pis., 1, 4 and 5): tumulus (the hill or hillock over place of interment): conditorium: conditivum (post-Augustan, as receptacle of a corpse, etc.): hypogeum (subterraneous place of interment, vault, Petronius, Sat., 11). The stillness of the grave, silentium altissimum (IMPROP.): to carry anybody to the grave, aliquem efferre; also with funere (also figuratively; e.g., rempublicam); aliquem sepelire (also figuratively, as Liv., 2, 55, in.; cum Genucio una mortuam ac sepultam tribuniciam potestatem): to follow anybody to the grave, exsequias alicujus comitari: exsequias alicujus funeris prosequi: to lay anybody in the grave, corpus alicujus sepulcro or tumulo inferre (Vid: Tac., Ann., 16, 6, 2): to rise from the grave, ab inferis excitari or revocari. [Vid: To RISE.] Beyond the grave, post mortem: the brink or edge of the grave (IMPROP.); e.g., anybody is or stands on the brink, etc., mors alicui jam imminet to have one foot in the grave, capulo vicinum esse (Serv., Verg., Aen., 6, 222); capularem esse (Plaut., Mil., 3, 1, 33): an oldmanwith one foot in the grave, sepulcrum vetus (Plaut.): He seems to me to have one foot in the grave, videtur mini prosequi se (i. e., to follow himself to the grave, Sen., Ep. 30, 4): avarice is the grave of friendship, pestis in amicitia pecuniae cupiditas. ☞ If = MONUMENT or TOMB, Vid.
grave v.
[Vid: To ENGRAVE.] [Vid: To ENGRAVE.] A graven image, perhaps deus falsus or commenticius; deus fictus et commenticius: the worship of graven images, idololatria (εἰδωλολατρεία, Eccl.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for grave?
- The usual Latin words for “grave” are gravis, sevērus, sērius; also trīstis, sevēritās, gravitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.