calvitium

From calvus (“without hair, bald, hairless”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaɫˈwɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kalˈvit̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

calvitium n (genitive calvitiī or calvitī); second declension

1. loss of hair, baldness
2. (of places without vegetation) bareness, scantiness, sterility

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (baldness): calvitiēs

• English: calvity

• “calvitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calvitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calvitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.