calvaria
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin calvāria (“skull”).
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, :
- 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
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Latin
Etymology
From calva.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kalˈu̯aː.ri.a/, [käɫ̪ˈu̯äːriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kalˈva.ri.a/, [kälˈväːriä]
Noun
calvāria f (genitive calvāriae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | calvāria | calvāriae |
Genitive | calvāriae | calvāriārum |
Dative | calvāriae | calvāriīs |
Accusative | calvāriam | calvāriās |
Ablative | calvāriā | calvāriīs |
Vocative | calvāria | calvāriae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: Kalvarienberg
- English: Calvary, calvaria
- French: calvaire
- Galician: caveira
- Portuguese: caveira
- Spanish: calavera
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.
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