Etymograph

English

gravitate

Gravitate comes from New Latin gravitāt-, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- ‘heavy’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷreh₂-‘heavy’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. New Latinc. 1500–1900gravitāt-
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1712gravitate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷreh₂-‘heavy’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. New Latinc. 1500–1900gravitāt-
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1712gravitate

Earliest quotation: 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books: “Theſe, who have nature's ſteps with care purſued, That…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- ‘heavy’

bar, brutal, grief, guru, grave, brigadier, brute, grieve, grievous, grievance, brut, brio, aggravation, brigand, aggravate, baryon, barite, 20 more

Today it means

verb To move under the force of gravity.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- / gravitate

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