calvar
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Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]calvar
Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]calvar
- Alternative form of calver
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From calvo (“balding man”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]calvar (first-person singular present calvo, first-person singular preterite calvei, past participle calvado)
- (intransitive) to become balding
- Synonym: calvejar
- (Brazil, by extension, humorous, transitive) to make appear to be balding
- Fulano me calvou enquanto eu tava dormindo! Que merda de pegadinha de 1º de abril!
- So-and-so shaved the top of my head while I was asleep! What a shitty April Fools' prank!
- Quando meu melhor amigo passou na facul, eu calvei ele pra comemorar!
- When my friend got into that uni, I shaved the top of his head to celebrate!
- Filhos da puta, entraram na minha casa, calvaram meu gato...
- Motherfuckers, they broke into my home and shaved the top of my cat's head...
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of calvar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading
[edit]- “calvar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “calvar”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
- “calvar”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
- “calvar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
- “calvar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “calvar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “calvar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French calvaire.
Noun
[edit]calvar n (plural calvaruri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | calvar | calvarul | calvare | calvarele | |
genitive-dative | calvar | calvarului | calvare | calvarelor | |
vocative | calvarule | calvarelor |
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