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Thread #110869   Message #2330771
Posted By: Amos
01-May-08 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thinking about starting a new thread
Subject: RE: BS: Thinking about starting a new thread
I think if you look closer you will see that clicky is a translation of the meaning of the latin word gravitus. But I don't think it has any currency in English. The also Latin word gravitas does have currency in English, meaning dignity or presence, formality in bearing and appearance. It's not that they made "gravitus" up. But they aren't saying it is an English word. The Webster editor compiled that rendering of "gravitus" from Webster's etymology of "weight", he claims; but the referenced page has no mention of that word on it. I suspect a typo. possibly. If you google "gravitus" you will get gamer's nicknames, Latin texts, and fictional characters, but no useage in ordinary English as such, as a noun. You will find a few places where it is listed as the Latin for weight.




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