Latin
Etymology
From caleō (“I am warm or hot; glow”) + -idus.
Alternative forms
- caldus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.li.dus/, [ˈkälʲɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.li.dus/, [ˈkäːlid̪us]
Adjective
calidus (feminine calida, neuter calidum, comparative calidior, superlative calidissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- (literary) warm, hot
- fiery, fierce, vehement
- spirited, impassioned
- rash, eager, inconsiderate
- (rare) having a white spot on the forehead
Usage notes
- In the sense "hot water", the syncopated form calda is particularly common. Emperor Augustus "corrects [his grandson Gaius Caesar] for saying calidam rather than caldam, not because it's not Latin, but because it's annoying and, as he himself puts it in Greek, περίεργον (períergon, “affected, overdone”)".[1]
- The form with -i- is completely absent from the surviving fragments of Petronius' Satyricon as inappropriate for representing informal speech, at least in the literal meaning.[2]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | calidus | calida | calidum | calidī | calidae | calida | |
genitive | calidī | calidae | calidī | calidōrum | calidārum | calidōrum | |
dative | calidō | calidae | calidō | calidīs | |||
accusative | calidum | calidam | calidum | calidōs | calidās | calida | |
ablative | calidō | calidā | calidō | calidīs | |||
vocative | calide | calida | calidum | calidī | calidae | calida |
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References
Further reading
- “calidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calidus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- calidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.