Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gravigrade

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: grav-i-grade
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Dated

noun

An elephant or manatee, or member of the obsolete suborder Gravigrada.

Obsolete

Etymology

From Latin gravis (“heavy”) + -grade (“way of walking”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: gravis

Usage

Inflected Forms

more gravigrade (comparative) most gravigrade (superlative) gravigrades (plural)

Questions

What does gravigrade mean?: slow-paced
Where does gravigrade come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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