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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm.
Pronunciation
Noun
cauma
- Great heat, as of the body in fever.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cauma n (genitive caumatis); third declension
- heat
- (by extension) heat of the day
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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Descendants
References
- “cauma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cauma 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)
- cauma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.