calamellus
Latin
Etymology
From calamus (“reed”) + -ellus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka.laˈmel.lus/, [käɫ̪äˈmɛlːʲʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.laˈmel.lus/, [käläˈmɛlːus]
Noun
calamellus m (genitive calamellī); second declension
- (Late Latin) A little reed or pen.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | calamellus | calamellī |
Genitive | calamellī | calamellōrum |
Dative | calamellō | calamellīs |
Accusative | calamellum | calamellōs |
Ablative | calamellō | calamellīs |
Vocative | calamelle | calamellī |
Related terms
- calamārius
- calamus
Descendants
- Catalan: caramell, caramella
- Galician: carambelo (“icicle”), caramelo
- Italian: caramello, caramella
- Old French: chalemel
- French: chalumeau (“blowtorch”)
- → English: chalumeau
- → North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)
- → Turkish: şalümo
- → English: shawm
- French: chalumeau (“blowtorch”)
- Old Portuguese: caramelo
- Portuguese: caramelo
- → Spanish: caramelo (“caramel, candy”)
- → Catalan: caramel
- → French: caramel (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: caramelo (“caramel, candy”)
- Portuguese: caramelo
- Romanian: caramel
- Spanish: caramillo (“shawm”)
References
- “calamellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calamellus 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)
- calamellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette