cauma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊmə/
• Rhymes: -aʊmə

Noun

cauma

1. Great heat, as of the body in fever.

Anagrams

• Cà Mau, Macau

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-

Proto-Hellenic *káwyō

Ancient Greek καίω (kaíō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)

Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma)bor.

Latin cauma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkau̯.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaːu̯.ma]

Noun

cauma n (genitive caumatis); third declension

1. heat
2. (by extension) heat of the day

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	cauma	caumata
genitive	caumatis	caumatum
dative	caumatī	caumatibus
accusative	cauma	caumata
ablative	caumate	caumatibus
vocative	cauma	caumata

Related terms

• cynocauma
• caumō

Descendants

• English: cauma, calm
• Spanish: calma
• French: calme
• Italian: calma
• Portuguese: calma

Further reading

• “cauma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cauma", 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)
• “cauma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.