grave

• enPR: grāv, IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“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.

A freshly dug grave

grave (plural graves)

1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
   • (Can we date this quote?), John 11:17:

     He had lain in the grave four days.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X:

     They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.

2. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
3. (by extension) Death, destruction.
   • a. 1769, unknown, The Cuckoo‎, lines 9-12:

     […] Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave! […]

• groove

• grave (burial) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”).

grave (third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past graved or grove, past participle graved or graven)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Book of Prayer, Psalms 7:16:

     He hath graven and digged up a pit.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
   • Exodus 28:9:

     Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.

   • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Robert Louis Stevenson, Requiem:

     This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"

3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

   to grave an image

   • (Can we date this quote?) Geoffrey Chaucer:

     With gold men may the hearte grave.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Matthew Prior:

     O! may they graven in thy heart remain.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii:

     […] And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

6. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

• begrave
• engrave

From French grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Doublet of grief.

grave (comparative graver, superlative gravest)

1. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.

2. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre. [from 16th c.]
3. Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) Moore, Encyclopedia of Music:

     The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.

4. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]
   • 2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National‎:

     Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.

• weightsome, sweer

• (unsorted by sense): solemn, sober, serious, sage, staid, demure, thoughtful, sedate, weighty, momentous, important

grave (plural graves)

1. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).

grave (plural graves)

1. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.

• burgrave
• landgrave
• margrave
• palsgrave
• waldgrave

• Gaver

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːvə/, [ˈɡ̊ʁɑːvə]

From Italian grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave”).

grave

1. (music) grave (low in pitch, tone etc.)
2. accent grave – accent grave, grave accent

From Old Norse grafa (“to dig, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

grave (imperative grav, infinitive at grave, present tense graver, past tense gravede, perfect tense har gravet)

1. dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)

• begrave
• graver
• gravning

See grav (“grave, tomb, pit”).

grave c

1. plural indefinite of grav

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grave

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of graven

• verga, vrage

grave

1. seriously, gravely

Borrowed from Latin gravis. Doublet of grief.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁav/

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grave (plural graves)

1. serious
2. solemn
3. low-pitched

   Antonym: aigu

grave

1. (informal, slang) much; a lot

   Je te kiffe grave !

   I love you like crazy!

• gravement
• gravissime
• gravitation
• gravité

grave

1. first-person singular present indicative of graver
2. third-person singular present indicative of graver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of graver
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of graver
5. second-person singular imperative of graver

• “grave” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gaver

Borrowed from Latin gravis. Doublet of greve.

grave (masculine and feminine plural gravi)

1. grave, serious

   un grave problema

   a serious problem

2. heavy
3. solemn
4. (music) low-pitched, low-pitch

• importante
• pesante
• austero
• serio

• acuto

• gravemente
• gravare
• gravezza
• gravità
• gravoso

• verga

grave

1. nominative neuter singular of gravis
2. accusative neuter singular of gravis
3. vocative neuter singular of gravis

• grave in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grave in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• grave in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

From Old English græf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą.

• graf, grafe, grawe, graffe

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːv/, /ɡrav/

grave (plural graves)

1. grave, burial
2. tomb, mausoleum

• gravestone
• graven

• English: grave
• Scots: grave, grawe, graive, graiwe, greawe

• “grāve (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

From Old French gravé.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraːvɛi̯/, /ˈɡraːveː/

grave (plural graves)

1. Alternative form of gravey

From Old English grāf, grāfa.

grave

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of grove

• greve

From Old French grave.

grave f (plural graves)

1. gravel

• French: grève

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grave)

From Old High German grāfo, grāvo, grāfio, grāvio (“count, local judge”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːvə/

grâve m

1. count, local judge

• burcgrâve
• göugrâve

• German: Graf

• “grâve” Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Wilhelm Müller, and Friedrich Zarncke. Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke. Vol. 1. S. Hirzel, 1863.

From Old Norse grafa, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”).

grave (imperative grav, present tense graver, passive graves, simple past gravde or grov, past participle gravd, present participle gravende)

1. to dig
2. grave ut - to excavate

• gravemaskin
• nedgravd
• utgravd
• utgraving, utgravning

• “grave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

grave (present tense grev, past tense grov, past participle grave, passive infinitive gravast, present participle gravande, imperative grav)

1. Alternative form of grava

• utgraving

• greve

Probably via Gaulish from Celtic, related to Cornish grow (“gravel”), Breton grouan, and Welsh gro (“gravel”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr-eu-d-.

grave f (oblique plural graves, nominative singular grave, nominative plural graves)

1. gravel

• French: grève

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (grave)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.vɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.vi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾa.ve/
• Rhymes: -avi

From Old Portuguese grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy; grave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us.

grave m or f (plural graves, comparable)

1. serious; grave (having possible severe negative consequences)

   Sofria de uma doença grave.

   He suffered from a serious disease.

2. (of sound) low-pitched; grave (low in pitch or tone)

   O som da tuba é mais grave do que o do trombone.

   The sound of the tuba has a lower pitch than that of the trombone.

3. grave; serious; sombre; austere; solemn (characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness)

   O programa tinha um tom grave.

   The program had a serious tone.

4. (archaic, physics) that falls down; that doesn’t float

   O balão não é um corpo grave.

   Balloons are not a falling body.

• (having negative consequences): sério, severo
• (low-pitched): baixo
• (sombre): sério, austero, circunspeto, sisudo, solene

• (low-pitched): agudo

• gravemente

grave f (plural graves)

1. (music) a low-pitched note

grave

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gravar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gravar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gravar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gravar

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾabe/, [ˈɡɾaβe]
• Homophone: grabe

From Old Spanish grave, from Latin gravis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Cf. also the attested Old Spanish form grieve, from a Vulgar Latin variant *grevis, which was more common in other Romance-speaking areas[1].

grave (plural graves) (superlative gravísimo)

1. serious, grave
2. bass (sound)

   Synonym: bajo

   Antonym: agudo

3. solemn
4. (grammar) stressed in the penultimate syllable; paroxytone

• (stressed syllable): aguda, esdrújula

• gravar
• gravedad
• gravitar

See the etymology of the main entry.

grave

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of gravar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of gravar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of gravar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of gravar.

• verga

• “grave” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

grave

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of grav.

From Old Frisian grava, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

grave

1. to dig

• “grave”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011