Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: calvarium
Antonyms: none provided
noun
plural of calvarium
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the dome of the skull
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: skullcap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bone, os
History
From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvarium, calavera, and calvary.
By the standard Latin plural inflection -a for Latin nouns ending in -um (second declension). The word calvarium was a New Latin coinage from earlier Latin calvaria, and English naturalized it and its plural form intact via unadapted borrowing, as well as allowing a regularized English plural, calvariums; it also did the same thing with calvaria, calvariae, calvarias (first declension), as well.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
