calceus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • calcius

Etymology

From calx (“heel”) +‎ -eus.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.ke.us/, [ˈkaɫ.ke.ʊs]

Noun

calceus m (genitive calceī); second declension

  1. shoe

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Occitan: cauça, cauceta
  • Portuguese: calça
  • Romansh: chaltschiel, caltschol
  • Sardinian: cartzu, cartu, caltzeta, caltzita, cartzita
  • Sicilian: càusi, quasi
  • Spanish: cálceo, calza, calceta, calcetín
  • Venetian: calça, calsa, calseto
  • Walloon: tchåsse

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, 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
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