gravedo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

grăvēdo, ĭnis, f. [gravis].

I Heaviness of the limbs, cold in the head, catarrh : quasi gravedo profluat, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 51; Cels. 4, 2, 4; Cic. Att. 10, 16, 6; 16, 14, 4; Cat. 44, 13; Plin. 23, 1, 6, § 10; 25, 13, 94, § 150; 30, 4, 11, § 31.—In plur., Cels. 1, 2; of heaviness in the head produced by intoxication : ad crapulae gravedines, Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 136.—

II Pregnancy , Nemes. Cyneg. 132.

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