Etymology

gravaminous

G2R1A1V4A1M3I1N1O1U1S1

Today it means: Serious; grave. Full definition →

Latin gravāmen, gravāminis
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgravāmen, gravāminis“burden, heaviness”
  2. English todaygravaminous

From oblique stem of Latin gravāmen, gravāminis (“burden, heaviness”) + -ous.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.