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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, heat, especially of the sun).

Pronunciation

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).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cauma caumata
Genitive caumatis caumatum
Dative caumatī caumatibus
Accusative cauma caumata
Ablative caumate caumatibus
Vocative cauma caumata

Descendants

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

References

  • cauma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cauma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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.
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