calvities
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin calvitiēs (“baldness”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
calvities (uncountable)
- Baldness, the condition of being bald.
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
calvities
References edit
- ^ “calvities”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ Gould, George Milbry, Scott, Richard John Ernst (1919) The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary, Third Edition, page 182
French edit
Noun edit
calvities f
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From calvus (“without hair, bald, hairless”) + -itiēs.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kalˈu̯i.ti.eːs/, [käɫ̪ˈu̯ɪt̪ieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kalˈvit.t͡si.es/, [kälˈvit̪ː͡s̪ies]
Noun edit
calvitiēs f (genitive calvitiēī); fifth declension
- baldness
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 108.1:
- Obstupueram ego supplicii metu pavidus, nec quid in re manifestissima dicerem, inveniebam turbatus ... et deformis praeter spoliati capitis dedecus superciliorum etiam aequalis cum fronte calvities, ut nihil nec facere deceret nec dicere.
- 1913 translation by Michael Heseltine
- I was dumb with terror of being punished, and too upset to find a word to say, for the case was only too clear. . . .We were in no position to speak, or do anything, for to say nothing of the disgrace of our shaven heads, our eyebrows were as bald as our pates.
- 1913 translation by Michael Heseltine
- Obstupueram ego supplicii metu pavidus, nec quid in re manifestissima dicerem, inveniebam turbatus ... et deformis praeter spoliati capitis dedecus superciliorum etiam aequalis cum fronte calvities, ut nihil nec facere deceret nec dicere.
Declension edit
Fifth-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | calvitiēs |
Genitive | calvitiēī |
Dative | calvitiēī |
Accusative | calvitiem |
Ablative | calvitiē |
Vocative | calvitiēs |
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: calvície
- English: calvities
- French: calvitie
- Italian: calvizie
- Portuguese: calvície
- Spanish: calvicie
References edit
- “calvities”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calvities in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.