calcatorium
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From calcāre (“to trample”) + -tōrium (“-ory: forming locations”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kal.kaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [käɫ̪käːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kal.kaˈto.ri.um/, [kälkäˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun
[edit]calcātōrium n (genitive calcātōriī or calcātōrī); second declension
- winepress, particularly a location where grapes are crushed underfoot to produce juice or wine
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | calcātōrium | calcātōria |
| genitive | calcātōriī calcātōrī1 |
calcātōriōrum |
| dative | calcātōriō | calcātōriīs |
| accusative | calcātōrium | calcātōria |
| ablative | calcātōriō | calcātōriīs |
| vocative | calcātōrium | calcātōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- English: calcatory
References
[edit]- “calcatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calcatorium 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)
- calcatorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.