calvo

calvo

1. neuter of calvu

From Old Galician-Portuguese calvo, from Latin calvus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalβo̝/

calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvos, feminine plural calvas)

1. bald (having no hair)

   Synonym: pelado

2. bald (having no trees or vegetation)

   Synonym: pelado

3. backward horned

   Synonym: calvelo

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “calvo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “calvo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “caluo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “calvo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “calvo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calvo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin calvus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.vo/
• Rhymes: -alvo
• Hyphenation: càl‧vo

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calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvi, feminine plural calve)

1. bald

calvo m (plural calvi, feminine calva)

1. bald man

• calvare

• calvizie

• valco, valcò

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

calvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of calvus

From Latin calvus, in turn from Proto-Italic *kalowos, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₂wós, *kl̥H- (“naked, bald”). Compare Spanish calvo, Catalan calb, French chauve and, more distantly related, Sanskrit कुल्व (kulva).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -awvu, (Portugal) -alvu
• Homophone: Calvo
• Hyphenation: cal‧vo

calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvos, feminine plural calvas)

1. bald (having no hair)

   Synonym: careca

2. (Brazil) balding

• “calvo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “calvo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

calvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of calvar

Inherited from Latin calvus

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalbo/ [ˈkal.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -albo
• Syllabification: cal‧vo

calvo (feminine calva, masculine plural calvos, feminine plural calvas)

1. bald

   Se quedó calvo

   He turned bald.

2. bare (lacking vegetation)

• → Central Bikol: kalbo
• → Tagalog: kalbo

calvo m (plural calvos, feminine calva, feminine plural calvas)

1. a bald person

• alopecia
• pelado
• lampiño

• “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