BALD Copy link • BALDglaber (ψιλὀς, by nature or by shearing; applies to the parts of the body, but not of the head, where hair is wanting; and to places where plants, trees, etc., should stand): calvus (without hair or feathers by nature, or through old age: with reference to men, it merely applies to the head; with reference to animals, to the whole body): bald in front, praecalvus: bald behind, recalvus (both post-Augustan): a bald head, calvitium (not calvities or capitis levitas): bald places, where nothing grows, glabreta, orum, neuter: to be bald, calvere; calvum esse; glabrere; glabrum esse: to grow bald, calvum fieri; glabrum fieri: to be growing bald, calvescere; glabrescere: to make bald, calvum facere; glabrum facere; glabrare. ☞ According to Döderlein, laevis, levis (λεὶος), means smooth, in opposition to rough and rugged, and gives a pleasant impression of elegance; whereas glaber (γλαφυρός), in opposition to rough, covered with hair, and grown up, and gives an unpleasant impression of deficiency. Unadorned, inelegant (of style): inornatus: incomtus: incultus: impolitus: exilis. Mean, worthless: abjectus: humilis: vilis.