gravidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɡɹævɪd/

形容詞

gravid (comparative more gravid, superlative most gravid)

1. (of egglaying animals, now chiefly figuratively) Pregnant.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow‎, London: Chatto & Windus:

     In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 345:

     One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Bilocations”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 507:

     The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.

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