Noun: calma
Gender: f
Hyphenation: càl‧ma
| Singular f | calma |
| Plural f | calme |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like calma
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Origin uncertain. Possibly from Late Latin cauma, from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, heat of the sun”). Compare Late Latin caumāre (“to rest during the heat (of the day), to siesta”), Sursilvan Romansh cauma (“resting place for livestock, especially during the noon heat”). If the Italian (and Ibero-Romance) word calma originally referred to the heat of the sun, especially around noon (and later to quiet during this time of the day), it may have been influenced by words like Latin calor (“heat”) and cal(i)dus (“hot”), accounting for cal- instead of the expected cau-.
2. Compare also Proto-Germanic *kalmaz (“frozenness, cold”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
καῦμα', Latin Nouns '
calor'.
Verbs referencing "calma"
Catalan Nouns
calma, Galician Nouns
calma, Portuguese Nouns
calma, Spanish Nouns
calma, French Nouns
calme, Greek Nouns
κάλμα.
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