calcaneum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin calx, calcis (“heel”).
Noun
[edit]calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “calcaneum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From calx (“heel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kalˈkaː.ne.um/, [käɫ̪ˈkäːneʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kalˈka.ne.um/, [kälˈkäːneum]
Noun
[edit]calcāneum n (genitive calcāneī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | calcāneum | calcānea |
genitive | calcāneī | calcāneōrum |
dative | calcāneō | calcāneīs |
accusative | calcāneum | calcānea |
ablative | calcāneō | calcāneīs |
vocative | calcāneum | calcānea |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Island Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: calcañu
- Galician: calcañar, calcañeira (dial.), calcañeiro (argot), calcáneo, cancañeira (dial.)
- Portuguese: calcanho (slang/argot), calcanhar
- Spanish: calcaño (archaic or dial.), calcañar, carcañal
Borrowings:
References
[edit]- “calcaneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calcaneum 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)
- calcaneum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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