calcearium
Latin
Alternative forms
- calciārium
Etymology
From calceus (“shoe”) + -ārium (of purpose), via *calceārius (“relating to shoes”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kal.keˈaː.ri.um/, [käɫ̪keˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kal.t͡ʃeˈa.ri.um/, [käl̠ʲt͡ʃeˈäːrium]
Noun
calceārium n (genitive calceāriī or calceārī); second declension
- (military) money given to soldiers for the expense of maintaining their shoes
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | calceārium | calceāria |
| Genitive | calceāriī calceārī1 | calceāriōrum |
| Dative | calceāriō | calceāriīs |
| Accusative | calceārium | calceāria |
| Ablative | calceāriō | calceāriīs |
| Vocative | calceārium | calceāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Italian: calzare
- → Basque: galtzari
References
- “calcearium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calcearium 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)