calvitium

== Latin == === Etymology === From calvus (“without hair, bald, hairless”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaɫˈwɪ.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kalˈvit.t͡si.um] === Noun === calvitium n (genitive calvitiī or calvitī); second declension loss of hair, baldness (of places without vegetation) bareness, scantiness, sterility ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== (baldness): calvitiēs ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: calvity === References === “calvitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “calvitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “calvitium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.