Gradivus

== Latin == === Etymology === From gradior (“to walk, to step forward”) +‎ -īvus. Literally, “he who walks, who steps forward”. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “any explanation for -ā-? apparently -a- is a hapax in Ovid”) === Noun === Grādīvus m sg (genitive Grādīvī); second declension An epithet of Mars ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Gradivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Gradivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.