calme

calme (comparative more calme, superlative most calme)

1. Obsolete spelling of calm.

• Camel, Malec, camel, macle

Inherited from Middle French calme, probably borrowed from Italian calma, from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma) (or alternatively through the intermediate of an Iberian language as opposed to Italian).

• IPA^(key): /kalm/

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• Homophones: calment, calmes
• Rhymes: -alm

calme (plural calmes)

1. calm
2. quiet, peaceful

• paisible
• quiet
• serein
• tranquille

• agité
• turbulent

• Dutch: kalm, (obsolete) calm
  • Negerhollands: kalm
  • → Caribbean Javanese: kalem
  • → Javanese: ꦏꦊꦩ꧀ (kalem)
    • → Indonesian: kalem

calme m (plural calmes)

1. calmness, stillness
2. coolness (of a person)

• bonace
• repos
• sérénité
• tranquillité

• agitation
• turbulence

• → Romanian: calm

calme

1. inflection of calmer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “calme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• clame, clamé

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.me/
• Rhymes: -alme
• Hyphenation: càl‧me

calme

1. feminine plural of calmo

calme f

1. plural of calma

• calm

Borrowed from Middle French calme, from Old Italian calma, of unclear further origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalm(ə)/

calme (uncountable) (Late Middle English, rare)

1. calm (time without wind)
2. calm (feeling of calmness)

• English: calm

• “calm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

calme (chiefly Late Middle English)

1. calm (without wind or storm)

• English: calm
• → Irish: calma

• “calm(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Italian calma, itself from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma); alternatively, via an Iberian language, probably Catalan.

calme m or f (plural calmes)

1. (of the weather) calm; still; windless

• French: calme
• → Middle English: calme, calm
  • English: calm

• Etymology and history of “calme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

calme

1. inflection of calmar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalme/ [ˈkal.me]
• Rhymes: -alme
• Syllabification: cal‧me

calme

1. inflection of calmar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative