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English
Etymology
From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calavera and calvary.
Noun
calvaria (plural calvariae or calvarias)
- (anatomy) The dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
2008 December 10, Charles K. F. Chan et al., “Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI:CD105 Thy1- progenitor populations derived from regions of the fetal mandible or calvaria that do not undergo endochondral ossification formed only bone without marrow in our assay.
Translations
the dome or roof of the skull
Latin
Etymology
From calvus (“bald”) + -āria (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
calvāria f (genitive calvāriae); first declension
- a skull
- Synonyms: calva, testa, crānium
- (capitalized) Calvary
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Derived forms:
- Direct borrowings:
References
- “calvaria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calvaria 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)
- calvaria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “calvaria”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 105