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名詞

calvities (uncountable)

1. Baldness, the condition of being bald.

名詞

calvities

1. plural of calvity

Latin

語源

calvus (“without hair, bald, hairless”) +‎ -itiēs

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈwi.ti.eːs/, [kaɫ̪ˈwɪ.t̪i.eːs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈvi.t͡si.es/, [kalˈviː.t͡si.ɛs]

名詞

calvitiēs f (genitive calvitiēī); fifth declension

1. baldness
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 108.1:

     Obstupueram ego supplicii metu pavidus, nec quid in re manifestissima dicerem, inveniebam turbatus ... et deformis praeter spoliati capitis dedecus superciliorum etiam aequalis cum fronte calvities, ut nihil nec facere deceret nec dicere.

     • 1913 translation by Michael Heseltine

       I was dumb with terror of being punished, and too upset to find a word to say, for the case was only too clear. . . .We were in no position to speak, or do anything, for to say nothing of the disgrace of our shaven heads, our eyebrows were as bald as our pates.

語形変化

Fifth-declension noun.

同意語

• calvitium

派生した語

• Catalan: calvície
• English: calvities
• French: calvitie
• Italian: calvizie
• Portuguese: calvície
• Spanish: calvicie

参照

• calvities in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calvities in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette