calme

calme, le calme (FR ADJ) untroubled, not agitated; weakly active; (N-M) state of motionlessness in the atmosphere or upon water; state of something that does not change brusquely or radically, impression of repose produced by this. First appears in French in 1418, from Italian calma, Greek kauma (burning heat, coupled with glassy immobility of the ocean). (Apollinaire, Bourget, Eluard, Fombeure, Mallarmé, Mirmont, van Lerberghe, Verlaine)