different between calve vs calva

English

Etymology

From Old English cealfian, from cealf (“calf”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæv/
• Rhymes: -??v, -æv
• Homophone: carve (some nonrhotic accents, e.g. RP)

Verb

calve (third-person singular simple present calves, present participle calving, simple past and past participle calved)

1. (intransitive) to give birth to a calf
2. (intransitive) to assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
3. (transitive) to give birth to (a calf)
4. (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)

5. (intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) to break off

6. (transitive, figuratively, especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• clave

Italian

Adjective

calve

1. feminine plural of calvo

Noun

calve f

1. plural of calva

Anagrams

• clave

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kal.u?e/, [?kä??u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kal.ve/, [?k?lv?]

Adjective

calve

1. vocative masculine singular of calvus

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kælv?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?lv?/

Etymology 1

From Latin calva (“the scalp”).

Noun

calva (plural calvae)

1. (anatomy) the calvaria; the dome or roof of the skull

Further reading

• Calvaria (skull) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

A shortened form of calvados.

Noun

calva (countable and uncountable, plural calvas)

1. calvados, an apple brandy made in France, or a glass of this brandy

Further reading

• Calvados (brandy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• caval, clava

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.va/
• Homophone: calvas

Noun

calva m (plural calvas)

1. calva; calvados

Further reading

• “calva” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

calva

1. feminine singular of calvo

Noun

calva f (plural calve)

1. female equivalent of calvo (“bald man”)

Anagrams

• clava

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kal.u?a/, [?kä??u?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kal.va/, [?k?lv?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kalow?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?H-.

Noun

calva f (genitive calvae); first declension

1. the bald scalp of the head
2. skull

Declension

First-declension noun.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

calva

1. nominative/vocative feminine singular of calvus
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of calvus

Adjective

calv?

1. ablative feminine singular of calvus

References

• calva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• calva in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Adjective

calva

1. feminine singular of calvo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kalba/, [?kal.??a]

Adjective

calva

1. feminine singular of calvo

Noun

calva f (plural calvas)

1. bald patch (area of baldness)
2. an area on a hide or fabric from which the hair or pill has worn out
3. clearing (area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees)
4. a traditional shepherds’ sport played in parts of Spain, the object of which is to knock down a partially supported horn or piece of wood (the calva) by throwing stones at it. In a modern version the stones have been substituted with metal cylinders (the marro) and horns are no longer used as targets
5. the wooden target used in the game of calva

Further reading

• calva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia