calautica

Latin

Alternative forms

• calantica, calvatica

Etymology

A borrowing attested from Afranius; the same as Classical Syriac ܟܲܠܵܘܵܐ (kalāwā), ܟܲܠܘܵܐ (kalwā, “tiara”) from Akkadian 𒆪𒇻𒇻 (/⁠kulūlu⁠/, “a kind of turban or headband”) which Brockelmann glosses in his Syriac-Latin lexicon as calautica; probably in Latin via Demotic, Coptic ⲕⲗⲁϥⲧ (klaft). Also passed into Arabic كَلَّوْتَة (kallawta), كَلَّفْتَة (kallafta), كَلَّفْتَاة (kallaftāh), a headwear consisting of a cap and turban popular with the Ayyubids and Mamluks, that is in Egypt, and possibly قَلَنْسُوَة (qalansuwa), which might descend from the Latin.

Noun

calautica f (genitive calauticae); first declension

1. A covering for the head of women, which fell down over the shoulders

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	calautica	calauticae
genitive	calauticae	calauticārum
dative	calauticae	calauticīs
accusative	calauticam	calauticās
ablative	calauticā	calauticīs
vocative	calautica	calauticae

References

• “klwˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• “calautica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calautica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 62
• Lagarde, Paul de (1887) Mittheilungen (in German), volume 2, Göttingen: Dieterichsche Sortimentsbuchhandlung, pages 4–11
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “calautica”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 86