calvities

Borrowed from Latin calvitiēs (“baldness”).

• IPA^(key): /kælˈvɪʃiiːz/[1][2]

calvities (uncountable)

1. Baldness, the condition of being bald.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælvɪtiz/

calvities

1. plural of calvity

calvities f

1. plural of calvitie

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈu̯i.ti.eːs/, [käɫ̪ˈu̯ɪt̪ieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈvit.t͡si.es/, [kälˈvit̪ː͡s̪ies]

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.

Fifth-declension noun, singular only.

• calvitium

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

• “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.