calvaria

calvaria · noun¹

1. Latin · borrowed fromcalvāria“skull”
2. English todaycalvaria

From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvarium, calavera, and calvary.

calvaria · noun²

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.

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