(adjective) : grăvĭdus, a, um, gravis, burdened, loaded; hence in partic.
* Pregnant, with child, with young (class.; syn. praegnans, fetus).
* Lit.
* Adj.: mater, Enn. ap. Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52 (Trag. v. 57 Vahl.): puero gravida,Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 87: gravida esse ex aliquo viro,id. ib. prol. 111; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 32; for which also simply aliquo,Plaut. Am. 3, 1, 18 and 19: de semine Jovis,Ov. M. 3, 260: virgo ex eo compressu,Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 28: prius gravida facta est,Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 73: facere gravidam aliquam,Ter. Ad. 3, 5, 29: cum esset gravida uxor, et jam appropinquare partus putaretur,Cic. Clu. 11, 31; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 18, § 48; Cels. 2, 1; 2, 5 sqq.; of animals, etc. (mostly poet.): gravida pecus,Verg. G. 2, 150; Ov. F. 4, 633: muraena,Hor. S. 2, 8, 43: balaenae,Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13.
* Transf., laden, filled, full (only poet.); constr. absol., with abl., or gen.
* Absol.: ad fores auscultato ... neu qui manus attulerit steriles intro ad nos, Gravidas foras exportet,Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 4: cum se gravido tremefecit corpore tellus, fruit-laden, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18: nubes,Lucr. 6, 440 (cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. II. p. 365); Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 107; cf.: cornu lunae,Val. Fl. 2, 56: ne gravidis procumbat culmus aristis,loaded, full,Verg. G. 1, 111; so, aristae,Ov. M. 1, 110: olivae,id. ib. 7, 281: fetus,id. ib. 8, 293: (caprae) gravido superant vix ubere limen,full,Verg. G. 3, 317.
* Trop., full, abundant: quod bonis benefit beneficium, gratia ea gravidast bonis,id. Capt. 2, 2, 108.
* With gen.: Mellis apes gravidae,Sil. 2, 120.

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