grief
Old French
noun
Definitions
- pain; anguish; suffering
Etymology
Inherited from Latin grevis, gravis (heavy, grave, important, sad, grievous).
Origin
Latin
gravis
Gloss
heavy, grave, important, sad, grievous
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
重
Emoji
🤘 🪨
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gravigrade English
- grief English
- *grevis Latin
- *ingrevicāre Latin
- *ingrevicō Latin
- *ingrevinō Latin
- gravedo Latin
- gravis Latin
- gravitas Latin
- gravitatio Latin
- graviter Latin
- grevis Latin
- pergravis Latin
- praegravis Latin
- Gravis German
- grave Italian
- greve Italian
- grief Dutch, Flemish
- grave French
- grief French
- grièvement French
- *gʷreh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷréh₂us Proto-Indo-European
- greef Middle English
- grava Esperanto
- greu Catalan, Valencian
- greață Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- greu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- îngreuna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- grief Middle Dutch
- grave Old Portuguese
- greatsã Aromanian
- greu Aromanian
- grèu Occitan
- greav Romansh
- greiv Romansh
- grev Romansh
- grivi Friulian
- grave Old Spanish
- grief Ladin