calva

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkælvə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlvə/

From Latin calva (“the scalp”).

calva (plural calvae)

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

   The excavation turned up one small femur, one broken calva, and one jawbone.

• Calvaria (skull) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

A shortened form of calvados.

calva (countable and uncountable, plural calvas)

1. Calvados, an apple brandy made in France, or a glass of this brandy.
   • 2005, Fred Vargas, Have mercy on us all, page 140:

     "I believe you are already acquainted with Captain Le Guern. Please join us for a glass of calva."

• Calvados (brandy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• caval, clava

calva

1. feminine singular of calvu

Clipping of calvados, or directly from French calva.

calva m (plural calva's, diminutive calvaatje n)

1. synonym of calvados (“French apple brandy”)

• IPA^(key): /kal.va/

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• Homophone: calvas

calva m (plural calvas)

1. calva; calvados

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.va/
• Rhymes: -alva
• Hyphenation: càl‧va

calva

1. feminine singular of calvo

calva f (plural calve)

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

• clava, valca

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫ.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkal.va]

From calvus + -a.

calva f (genitive calvae); first declension

1. the bald scalp of the head
2. skull

First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

calva

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

calvā

1. ablative feminine singular of calvus

• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 85

• Hyphenation: cal‧va
• Rhymes: -alvɐ, -awvɐ

calva

1. feminine singular of calvo

calva

1. inflection of calvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalba/ [ˈkal.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -alba
• Syllabification: cal‧va

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. (games) 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. (games) the wooden target used in the game of calva

calva

1. feminine singular of calvo

• “calvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• calva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia