grevis

Latin

Blend of gravis (“heavy”) +‎ levis (“light”). Attested in a glossary[1] written in the eighth century CE.[2]

grevis (neuter greve); third-declension two-termination adjective (Early Medieval Latin)

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: greu
- Romanian: greu
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: greve
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: greve, aggre
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Old Ligurian: greve
  - Old Lombard: greve
    - Lombard: grev
  - Piedmontese: greu, grev
- Friulian: grivi, grevi
- Ladin: grief
- Romansch: grev, greav; greiv
- Venetian: greve, gref, grevo
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: greu
- Occitan: grèu
- Old French: grief (see there for further descendants)
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Spanish: grieve
Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
- *greviāre
- *ingrevicāre

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 407: “è pesante” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gravis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 265

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