English

Noun

calvaria ‎(plural calvariae or calvarias)

1. (anatomy) The dome or roof of the skull
   • 2008 December 10, Charles K. F. Chan et al., “Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, DOI:10.1038/nature07547:

     CD105 Thy1- progenitor populations derived from regions of the fetal mandible or calvaria that do not undergo endochondral ossification formed only bone without marrow in our assay.

Latin

Etymology

From calvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈwaː.ri.a/, [kaɫˈwaː.ri.a]

Noun

calvāria f ‎(genitive calvāriae); first declension

1. skull; skull place

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• English: Calvary, calvaria
• Galician: caveira
• Portuguese: caveira
• Spanish: calavera

References

• calvaria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CALVARIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “calvaria”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.