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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin calvitiēs (“baldness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
calvities (uncountable)
- Baldness, the condition of being bald.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
calvities
- plural of calvity
References
French
Noun
calvities f
- plural of calvitie
Latin
Etymology
From calvus (“without hair, bald, hairless”) + -itiēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Declension
Fifth-declension noun, singular only.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “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.