calm

ca-adj

calm (feminine calma, masculine plural calms, feminine plural calmes)

calma (feminine)
calms (masculine plural)
calmes (feminine plural)

From calma, probably in imitation of French calme (adjective) and Spanish calmo.


calm

(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only thro’ the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XI:

(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.

(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

en-adj

calm (comparative calmer or more calm, superlative calmest or most calm)

calmer (comparative)
more calm (comparative)
calmest (superlative)
most calm (superlative)

malinaw

From Middle English calm, calme, from Middle French calme, probably from Old Italian calma, of uncertain origin. Calma may derive from Late Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō. Compare also Lombardic *chalm, *chalma (“frozenness”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”).
Displaced native Middle English smilte (“quite, still, gentle”) from Old English smylte (“quiet, tranquil, calm, serene”).


calm

Calm on the seas, and silver sleep,
And waves that sway themselves in rest,
And dead calm in that noble breast
Which heaves but with the heaving deep.

(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 4:39:

It was a calm ; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 64, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 324:

en-noun

calm (countable and uncountable, plural calms)

հանգստություն

condition of being unworried and free from anger

հանգիստ

the state with absence of noise and disturbance


calm

to calm a crying baby

to calm the passions

to calm the tempest raised by Aeolus

1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

en-verb

calm (third-person singular simple present calms, present participle calming, simple past and past participle calmed)

calms (present singular third-person)
calming (participle present)
calmed (participle past)
calmed (past)


calm

composure (calmness of mind or matter, self-possession)