Calm Definition

Origin of Calm

• Middle English calme from Old French from Old Italian calmo from Late Latin cauma heat of the day, resting place in the heat of the day from Greek kauma burning heat from kaiein to burn N., from Middle English calme from Italian calma from Vulgar Latin calma from Late Latin

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Middle French calme, from Old Italian calma. Calma may derive from Latin cauma (“heat of the midday sun”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kauma, “heat, especially of the sun”), from καίω (kaiō, “I burn”), or possibly from Latin caleō, from Ancient Greek (Doric) κάλεoς (kaleos) (of the Ionic κήλεος (kēleos, “burning”)).

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