Words that come from Latin gravis

400 words across 41 languages descend from Latin gravis — including grave, grief, gravity, gravel, gravely, grievance, gravitational, engraving.

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English (144)

Latin (53)

Italian (27)

French (18)

Spanish (17)

Romanian (12)

Portuguese (11)

Dutch (10)

Esperanto (10)

Swedish (9)

German (9)

Norwegian Bokmål (9)

Old French (9)

Finnish (7)

Catalan (6)

Middle English (6)

Danish (4)

Aromanian (4)

New Latin (4)

Hungarian (3)

Ido (3)

Romansch (3)

Maltese (2)

Cebuano (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Middle French (1)

Ladin (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Russian (1)

Welsh (1)

Latvian (1)

Friulian (1)

Korean (1)

Translingual (1)

Japanese (1)

Galician (1)

Thai (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Norman (1)

Malay (1)

Old Spanish (1)