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calvitium

calvitium · n

baldness

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

calvĭtĭum — Lewis & Short

calvĭtĭum, ii, n.id.,

I baldness (class.; access. form calvĭtĭes).

I Lit.: in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvitio maeror levaretur, * Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62; Plin. 11, 37, 47, § 131; Suet. Caes. 45; id. Dom. 18; Aus. Epigr. 72, 2; Tert. adv. Nat. 1, 10 fin. —

II Of places destitute of herbage, bareness, sterility, Col. 4, 29, 11.

In the wild

calvitio Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.30
calvitio Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.62
calvitio Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.10
calvitium Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.29.11
calvitium Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 10
calvitium Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 24.2

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Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. caluitium (scan p. 112; entry #1579).

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