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
- 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
- calcea
- calceāria
- calceō
- calceocaliga
- calceolus
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
- 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