Plural of gravamen; multiple serious parts of complaints or the main points at issue in several cases.
Anglicized plural of the Latin gravamen, formed by adding -s rather than using the Latin plural gravamina, showing how English adopted Latin terms but made them conform to English pluralization rules.
English speakers got lazy with Latin—instead of learning that gravamen pluralizes as 'gravamina' (the proper Latin way), they just added -s, creating this hybrid 'gravamens' that blends Latin and English rules.
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