gravitate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from gravitation. Or borrowed from New Latin gravito, gravitatus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹævɪteit/
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Hyphenation: grav‧i‧tate

Verb

gravitate (third-person singular simple present gravitates, present participle gravitating, simple past and past participle gravitated)

(intransitive, astrophysics) To move under the force of gravity.
- 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books, book II:
  Theſe, who have nature's ſteps with care purſued,
  That matter is with ac‍tive force endued,
  That all its parts magnetic power exert,
  And to each other gravitate, aſſert.
(intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
- 1776, Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:
  The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
- 1923, Elbert Hubbard, "J.B. Runs Things":
  Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Translations

to move under the force of gravity

Bulgarian: бивам притеглен (bivam priteglen)
Irish: imtharraing
Portuguese: gravitar (pt)

Russian: гравитировать (ru) (gravitirovatʹ)
Tagalog: dumagsin

to tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity

Bulgarian: гравитирам (bg) (gravitiram)
Finnish: hakeutua (fi), suuntautua (fi)

Irish: imtharraing

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} graviti
French: ^{(please verify)} graviter (fr)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} gravitare (it)

Romanian: ^{(please verify)} gravita (ro)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} gravitar (es)

References

gravitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
gravitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

gravitate

second-person plural present indicative of gravitare
second-person plural imperative of gravitare
feminine plural of gravitato

Anagrams

rigettava

Latin

Noun

gravitāte

ablative singular of gravitās

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gravité, Latin gravitas, gravitatem; equivalent to grav +‎ -itate. Compare greutate, possibly an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɡra.viˈta.te]

Noun

gravitate f (uncountable)

gravity, seriousness, graveness

Declension

declension of gravitate (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) gravitate	gravitatea
genitive/dative	(unei) gravități	gravității
vocative	gravitate, gravitateo

Related terms

grav
gravitație