"calvus" meaning in Latin

See calvus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [ˈkaɫ.wʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈkal.vus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: The term may be compared to Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s. However, the sequence *-lw- yields Latin -ll-, which—according to De Vaan—indicates that the Latin term must derive from earlier *kalVwos, itself from earlier *kl̥H-e/o-wo-. Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:inh|itc-pro:*kalVwos}}, {{cog|sa|कुल्व|t=bald|tr=kulvá}} Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”), {{inh|la|ine-pro|*kl̥H-|*kl̥H-wó-s}} Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s Head templates: {{la-adj|calvus}} calvus (feminine calva, neuter calvum); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|calvus}} Forms: calva [feminine], calvum [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], calvus [masculine, nominative, singular], calva [feminine, nominative, singular], calvum [neuter, nominative, singular], calvī [masculine, nominative, plural], calvae [feminine, nominative, plural], calva [neuter, nominative, plural], calvī [genitive, masculine, singular], calvae [feminine, genitive, singular], calvī [genitive, neuter, singular], calvōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], calvārum [feminine, genitive, plural], calvōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], calvō [dative, masculine, singular], calvae [dative, feminine, singular], calvō [dative, neuter, singular], calvīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], calvum [accusative, masculine, singular], calvam [accusative, feminine, singular], calvum [accusative, neuter, singular], calvōs [accusative, masculine, plural], calvās [accusative, feminine, plural], calva [accusative, neuter, plural], calvō [ablative, masculine, singular], calvā [ablative, feminine, singular], calvō [ablative, neuter, singular], calvīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], calve [masculine, singular, vocative], calva [feminine, singular, vocative], calvum [neuter, singular, vocative], calvī [masculine, plural, vocative], calvae [feminine, plural, vocative], calva [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. hairless, bald Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-calvus-la-adj-nM0VXNo~ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms suffixed with -vus, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Hair Derived forms: calva, calvaria, calvaster, calvātus, calvēfīō, Calvēna, calveō, Calvīnus, calvities, calvitium, dēcalvō, praecalvus, recalvaster, recalvātiō, recalvitiēs, recalvus

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "calvu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "calb"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Corsican",
      "lang_code": "co",
      "word": "calvu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "calvous"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "chauve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "calvo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "calvo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "word": "cau"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "word": "Calvin"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old French",
      "lang_code": "fro",
      "word": "chauve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "calvo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romansh",
      "lang_code": "rm",
      "word": "chalv"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "lang_code": "tl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kalbo"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "calvo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*kalVwos"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "कुल्व",
        "t": "bald",
        "tr": "kulvá"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kl̥H-",
        "4": "*kl̥H-wó-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The term may be compared to Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s. However, the sequence *-lw- yields Latin -ll-, which—according to De Vaan—indicates that the Latin term must derive from earlier *kalVwos, itself from earlier *kl̥H-e/o-wo-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "calvus"
      },
      "expansion": "calvus (feminine calva, neuter calvum); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "calvus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -vus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "la:Hair",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "calva"
        },
        {
          "word": "calvaria"
        },
        {
          "word": "calvaster"
        },
        {
          "word": "calvātus"
        },
        {
          "word": "calvēfīō"
        },
        {
          "word": "Calvēna"
        },
        {
          "word": "calveō"
        },
        {
          "word": "Calvīnus"
        },
        {
          "word": "calvities"
        },
        {
          "word": "calvitium"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēcalvō"
        },
        {
          "word": "praecalvus"
        },
        {
          "word": "recalvaster"
        },
        {
          "word": "recalvātiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "recalvitiēs"
        },
        {
          "word": "recalvus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hairless, bald"
      ],
      "id": "en-calvus-la-adj-nM0VXNo~",
      "links": [
        [
          "hairless",
          "hairless"
        ],
        [
          "bald",
          "bald"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkaɫ.wʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkal.vus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "calvus"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "calva"
    },
    {
      "word": "calvaria"
    },
    {
      "word": "calvaster"
    },
    {
      "word": "calvātus"
    },
    {
      "word": "calvēfīō"
    },
    {
      "word": "Calvēna"
    },
    {
      "word": "calveō"
    },
    {
      "word": "Calvīnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "calvities"
    },
    {
      "word": "calvitium"
    },
    {
      "word": "dēcalvō"
    },
    {
      "word": "praecalvus"
    },
    {
      "word": "recalvaster"
    },
    {
      "word": "recalvātiō"
    },
    {
      "word": "recalvitiēs"
    },
    {
      "word": "recalvus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "calvu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "calb"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Corsican",
      "lang_code": "co",
      "word": "calvu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "calvous"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "chauve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "calvo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "calvo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "word": "cau"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "word": "Calvin"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old French",
      "lang_code": "fro",
      "word": "chauve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "calvo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romansh",
      "lang_code": "rm",
      "word": "chalv"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "lang_code": "tl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "kalbo"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "calvo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*kalVwos"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "कुल्व",
        "t": "bald",
        "tr": "kulvá"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kl̥H-",
        "4": "*kl̥H-wó-s"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The term may be compared to Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s. However, the sequence *-lw- yields Latin -ll-, which—according to De Vaan—indicates that the Latin term must derive from earlier *kalVwos, itself from earlier *kl̥H-e/o-wo-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calve",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calvae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calva",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "calvus"
      },
      "expansion": "calvus (feminine calva, neuter calvum); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "calvus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin adjectives",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin first and second declension adjectives",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -vus",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "la:Hair"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hairless, bald"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hairless",
          "hairless"
        ],
        [
          "bald",
          "bald"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkaɫ.wʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈkal.vus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "calvus"
}

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