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calvaria

calvaria · f

The skull

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Where it lives

De Medicina 12 · 1.17/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

calvārĭa — Lewis & Short

calvārĭa, ae, f.calva, calvus.

I The skull of man, Cels. 8, 1; Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, 35: calvariae locus, id. Matt. 27, 33; of beasts: canis, Plin. 30, 6, 18, § 53: equae, asinae, Pall. 1, 35, 16.—

II In eccl. Lat., Calvary, the place where Jesus Christ was crucified, Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 198.

In the wild

calvaria Celsus, De Medicina 8.1.p2
calvariam Celsus, De Medicina 8.4.p2
calvariam Celsus, De Medicina 8.4.p6
calvariae Celsus, De Medicina 8.4.p4
calvaria Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.1.p2
calvaria Celsus, De Medicina 8.3.p1

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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