cauma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊmə/
• Rhymes: -aʊmə

Noun

cauma

1. Great heat, as of the body in fever.

Anagrams

• Cà Mau, Macau

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.ma/, [ˈkäu̯mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯.ma/, [ˈkäːu̯mä]

Noun

cauma n (genitive caumatis); third declension

1. heat
2. (by extension) heat of the day

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cauma	caumata
Genitive	caumatis	caumatum
Dative	caumatī	caumatibus
Accusative	cauma	caumata
Ablative	caumate	caumatibus
Vocative	cauma	caumata

Related terms

• cynocauma
• caumō

Descendants

• English: cauma, calm
• Spanish: calma
• Italian: calma
• Portuguese: calma

References

• “cauma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cauma 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)
• cauma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.