calvo

calvo

1. neuter of calvu

From Old Galician-Portuguese calvo, from Latin calvus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalβo̝/

calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvos, feminine plural calvas)

1. bald (having no hair)

   Synonym: pelado

2. bald (having no trees or vegetation)

   Synonym: pelado

3. backward horned

   Synonym: calvelo

• “calvo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “calvo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “caluo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “calvo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “calvo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “calvo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin calvus, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₂wós, *kl̥H- (“naked, bald”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.vo/
• Rhymes: -alvo
• Hyphenation: càl‧vo

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calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvi, feminine plural calve)

1. bald

calvo m (plural calvi, feminine calva)

1. bald man

• calvizie

• valco, valcò

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.u̯oː/, [ˈkäɫ̪u̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.vo/, [ˈkälvo]

calvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of calvus

From Latin calvus, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₂wós, *kl̥H- (“naked, bald”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alvu, (Brazil) -awvu
• Hyphenation: cal‧vo

calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvos, feminine plural calvas)

1. bald (having no hair)
2. (Brazil) balding

   Synonym: careca

Inherited from Latin calvus, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₂wós, *kl̥H- (“naked, bald”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalbo/ [ˈkal.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -albo
• Syllabification: cal‧vo

calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvos, feminine plural calvas)

1. bald

   Se quedó calvo

   He turned bald.

2. bare (lacking vegetation)

• Tagalog: kalbo

calvo m (plural calvos)

1. a bald man

• alopecia
• pelado
• lampiño

• “calvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014