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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From caleō (“I am warm or hot; glow”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
calidus (feminine calida, neuter calidum, comparative calidior, superlative calidissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- (literary) warm, hot
- Synonyms: (informal) caldus, (archaic) formus
- Antonym: frigidus
- fiery, fierce, vehement
- spirited, impassioned
- rash, eager, inconsiderate
- (rare) having a white spot on the forehead
Usage notes
- In the sense "hot water", the syncopated form calda is particularly common. Emperor Augustus "corrects for saying calidam rather than caldam, not because it's not Latin, but because it's annoying and, as he himself puts it in Greek, περίεργον (períergon, “affected, overdone”)".
- The form with -i- is completely absent from the surviving fragments of Petronius' Satyricon as inappropriate for representing informal speech, at least in the literal meaning.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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Descendants
See also caldus.
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 94
- ^ B. Boyce (2018 July 17) The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis, BRILL, →ISBN, page 42
Further reading
- “calidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calidus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- calidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.