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calvus

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Italic *kal(V)wos. Cognate with Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá, “bald”).[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

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    calvus (feminine calva, neuter calvum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. hairless, bald

    Declension

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    First/second-declension adjective.

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    References

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    • “calvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “calvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "calvus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “calvus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “calvus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “calvus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
    • “calvus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “calvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 85-86