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Latin

Etymology

From caleō (I am warm or hot; glow) +‎ -idus.

Alternative forms

  • caldus (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

Pronunciation

Adjective

calidus (feminine calida, neuter calidum, comparative calidior, superlative calidissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (literary) warm, hot
    Synonyms: (informal) caldus, (archaic) formus
    Antonym: frigidus
  2. fiery, fierce, vehement
  3. spirited, impassioned
  4. rash, eager, inconsiderate
  5. (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.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  1. ^ J. N. Adams (2013 May 23) Social Variation and the Latin Language[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 94–
  2. ^ B. Boyce (2018 July 17) The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis[2], BRILL, →ISBN, page 42

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.