calvitium

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Latin

Etymology

From calvus (“without hair, bald, hairless”).

Pronunciation

Noun

calvitium n (genitive calvitiī or calvitī); second declension

  1. loss of hair, baldness
  2. (of places without vegetation) bareness, scantiness, sterility

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative calvitium calvitia
Genitive calvitiī
calvitī1 		calvitiōrum
Dative calvitiō calvitiīs
Accusative calvitium calvitia
Ablative calvitiō calvitiīs
Vocative calvitium calvitia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: calvity

References

  • “calvitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “calvitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calvitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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