calvus

American  

[kal-vuhs] / ˈkæl vəs /

adjective

Meteorology.

1. (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having its upper portion changing from a rounded, cumuliform shape to a diffuse, whitish, cirriform mass with vertical striations.

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Etymology

Origin of calvus

< New Latin, Latin: literally, bald

Example Sentences

The poets of the Ciceronian age,—Hortensius, Memmius, Lucretius, Catullus, Calvus, Cinna, &c.—either themselves belonged to the governing class, or were men of leisure and independent means, living as equals with the members of that class.

From Project Gutenberg

It may indeed be urged that if this strange and tragical history had been known to the Augustan poets, who, in greater or less degree, acknowledge the spell exercised upon them by the genius of Lucretius, some sympathetic allusion to it would probably have been found in their writings, such as that in Ovid to the early death of Catullus and Calvus.

From Project Gutenberg

If Catullus required to be induced by any one to make an apology, it is more likely that his father's influence moved him to do so than the example and influence of Calvus.

From Project Gutenberg

We may suppose too that the cultivation of music had some share in eliciting the lyrical movement in Latin verse from the fact mentioned by Horace, that the songs of Catullus and Calvus were ever in the mouths of the fashionable professors of that art in a later age.

From Project Gutenberg

The latest incident which Catullus mentions is the speech of his friend Calvus, delivered in August 54 b.c. against Vatinius13.

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