Édouard Manet. Seascape Calm Weather. 1864-65

Calm an adjective meaning peaceful, quiet; particularly used of the weather, free from wind or storm, or of the sea, opposed to rough. In Grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a Noun or Pronoun, giving more information about the A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface and strongly implying Severe weather. The word appears in French calme, through which it came into English, in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian calma. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. Most authorities follow Diez (Etym. For other uses see Diez (disambiguation. Diez (also Dietz) is a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Worterbuch der romanischen Sprachen) in tracing the origin to the Low Latin cauma, an adaptation of Greek Kaiii,ua, burning heat, xalECV, to burn. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. An adaptation is a characteristic of an Organism that has been favored by Natural selection and The Portuguese calma has this meaning as well as that of quiet. The connection would be heat of the day, rest during that period, so quiet, rest, peacefulness. The insertion of the L, which in English pronunciation disappears, is probably due to the Latin calor, heat, with which the word was associated.

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