calceus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • calcius

Etymology

From calx (“heel”) +‎ -eus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.ke.us/, [ˈkäɫ̪keʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.t͡ʃe.us/, [ˈkäl̠ʲt͡ʃeus]

Noun

calceus m (genitive calceī); second declension

  1. shoe

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative calceus calceī
Genitive calceī calceōrum
Dative calceō calceīs
Accusative calceum calceōs
Ablative calceō calceīs
Vocative calcee calceī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ⇒ Italian: calcetto
  • ⇒ Romanian: încălție, încălței
  • ⇒ Venetian: calseto
  • Sardinian: cartzu, cartu, caltzeta, caltzita, cartzita
  • Borrowings:
    • → Italian: calceo
    • → Spanish: cálceo

References

  • “calceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “calceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calceus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • calceus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to change one's clothes (and shoes): vestimenta (et calceos) mutare
  • “calceus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “calceus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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