grave

(Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Any place of interment.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any place containing one or more corpses.
4. (broadly, uncountable) Death, destruction.
5. (broadly, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dig.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To entomb; to bury.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Adj

1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
2. Low in pitch, tone etc.
3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
4. (dated) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
5. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.

Verb

To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.

Opposto di

acute, deep, flat, low-pitched

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: grave

Ereditato da inglese antico: græf

Affine frisone occidentale: grêf

Affine olandese: graf

Affine basso tedesco: Graf

Affine tedesco: Grab

Affine danese: -

Affine svedese: -

Affine norvegese: grav

Affine islandese: gröf

Affine francese antico: greve

Ereditato da inglese medio: greyve

Affine olandese: -

Affine tedesco: -

In summary

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.

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Traduzioni

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Grab

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mogiła

Frasi

I swear it on my mother's grave .