Where does “Calvary” come from?
Calvary comes from Latin calvaria, from calvus meaning bald, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European klh₂wós with the same sense.
Ancestry of “Calvary”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | calvaria | a skull; Calvary |
| 2 | Latin | calva | the bald scalp of the head; skull;... |
| 3 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |