Etymology

gravigrade

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Today it means: slow-paced Full definition →

Latin gravis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromgravis“heavy”
  2. English todaygravigrade

From Latin gravis (“heavy”) + -grade (“way of walking”).

Words from the same roots

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