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“heaviness” in Latin
gravitāsweight, heaviness; gravity, seriousness; severity, harshnesspondusweight; weight of a pound; heaviness, weight of a bodyonusburden, load; cargo, freight; tax, tax burdendūritāsharshnesstarditāsslowness, tardiness
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
heaviness
gravitas (the being heavy, as a property): pondus (the measure or degree of heaviness, the weight): onus (burden; weight as oppressive to him who bears it): duritas (hardness; heaviness of expression, of a verse): tarditas (slowness, heaviness of intellect, etc). (The words are found in this connection and order.) vis et gravitas alicujus rei: pondus et gravitas; nutus et pondus alicujus rei; vis nutusque alicujus rei (Cic., De Or., 3, 45, 178). Heaviness (of intellect), tardum ingenium: tarditas ingenii: heaviness of spirit, aegritudo animi, maestitia: intemperies, quae μελαγχολία dicitur (Gell., 18, 7, 4, of a confirmed gloom of spirit, etc.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for heaviness?
- The usual Latin words for “heaviness” are gravitās, pondus, onus; also dūritās, tarditās. 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.