calidus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From caleō (“I am warm or hot; glow”) + -idus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.li.dus/, [ˈkälʲɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.li.dus/, [ˈkäːlid̪us]
Adjective
calidus (feminine calida, neuter calidum, comparative calidior, superlative calidissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- warm, hot
- 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 [his grandson Gaius Caesar] for saying calidam rather than caldam, not because it's not Latin, but because it's tiresome and, as he himself puts it in Greek, περίεργον ("affected, overdone")".[1]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | calidus | calida | calidum | calidī | calidae | calida | |
| Genitive | calidī | calidae | calidī | calidōrum | calidārum | calidōrum | |
| Dative | calidō | calidō | calidīs | ||||
| Accusative | calidum | calidam | calidum | calidōs | calidās | calida | |
| Ablative | calidō | calidā | calidō | calidīs | |||
| Vocative | calide | calida | calidum | calidī | calidae | calida | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: caldu
- Asturian: caldu, cálidu (borrowing)
- Catalan: cald, càlid (borrowing)
- Corsican: caldu
- Dalmatian: cuolt, cuold
- English: scald, calid (borrowing)
- Franco-Provençal: chôd, caud
- French: chaud
- Friulian: cjalt, čhald
- Galician: caldo
- Istro-Romanian: cåd, cǫd
- Italian: caldo, calido (borrowing)
- Norman: câod, caoud
- Occitan: caud
- Portuguese: caldo, cálido (borrowing)
- Romanian: cald
- Romansch: chaud
- Sardinian: caldu, calidu
- Sicilian: càvuru, càudu, callu
- Spanish: caldo, cálido (borrowing)
- Walloon: tchôd, schandi
- Venetian: calt, caldo
See also
References
- “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.