caldus

Classical Latin syncope of calidus.[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.dus/, [ˈkäɫ̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.dus/, [ˈkäl̪d̪us]

caldus (feminine calda, neuter caldum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Syncopic form of calidus (“warm, hot”)

First/second-declension adjective.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: caldu
  • Istro-Romanian: cåd, cǫd
  • Megleno-Romanian: cald
  • Romanian: cald
• Dalmatian:
  • cuolt, kuolt, cuold
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: caldu
  • Italian: caldo
  • Sicilian: càvuru, càudu, càuru, càvudu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cjalt, čhald
  • Ligurian: câdo
  • Lombard: cald
  • Piedmontese: càud
  • Romansch: chaud
  • Venetian: calt, caldo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: chôd
  • Old French: chaut, chalt, calt, caut
    • Champenois: tchaud
    • French: chaud
    • Lorrain: tchâd
    • Norman: câod, caûd, caoud
    • Picard: caud, keud (Amiens)
    • Walloon: tchôd
    • → Italian: cialda (from the feminine)
    • → Middle English: chaud
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cald
  • Occitan: caud

    Languedocien: cald (dialectal)

    Nord-Occitan: chaud

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: caldu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: caldo
    • Galician: caldo
    • Portuguese: caldo
      • → Indonesian: kaldu
  • Spanish: caldo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: caldu

• “caldus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caldus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caldus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette