calavera

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish calavera (literally “skull”). Doublet of calvaria and calvary.

calavera (plural calaveras)

1. sugar skull

• Caravela

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.ləˈβe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.ləˈve.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ka.laˈve.ɾa]

calavera f (plural calaveres)

1. skull

calavera m (plural calaveres)

1. libertine, playboy
   • 2004, Fany Tur Riera, “6 de maig de 1838. Assassinat a ses Feixes" in Eivissa”, in Institut d'Estudis Eivissencs, number 41, page 38:

     Tenia fama d'haver estat un calavera de fadrí.

     He had the reputation of having been a libertine bachelor.

• calaverada

• “calavera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin calvāria.

• IPA^(key): /kalaˈbeɾa/ [ka.laˈβ̞e.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧la‧ve‧ra

calavera f (plural calaveras)

1. skull
2. death's-head hawkmoth
3. (Mexico) taillight

calavera m (plural calaveras)

1. (also relational) libertine, playboy, party animal

• “calavera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014