Definitions for calvus

calvus cal·vus

Spelling: [kal-vuh s]
IPA: /ˈkæl vəs/

Calvus is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in calvus (aclsuv).

Definitions for calvus

adjective

  1. (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.

Origin of calvus

New Latin, Latin: literally, bald

Examples for calvus

The letter refers to correspondence with calvus, and criticizes his oratory.

And calvus was gone, leaving Ahenobarbus as though he had been cudgelled into numbness.

It is, therefore, properly said in this Dialogue, that Cicero thought calvus cold and enervated.

calvus, Cæsar, Pollio, multum ante quæstoriam omnes ætatem gravissima judicia susceperunt.

We all have read the letters of calvus and Brutus to your famous orator.

In the Brutus, where Cicero speaks of calvus at great length, his language is reserved.

The first friend he met on the street was calvus, the young poet and orator.

calvus was an orator more improved by literature than Curio.

If justice is wounded because Florus keeps afloat in the shipwreck where Varius and calvus perish, it is justice which is wrong.

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