calcea

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.tse.a/

Noun

calcea (plural calceas)

1. sock
2. stocking

Latin

Etymology 1

From calce- +‎ -a (feminine ending). Attested from 800 CE in the works of Theodulf of Orléans.

Noun

calcea f (genitive calceae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. stocking (? presumably)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	calcea	calceae
genitive	calceae	calceārum
dative	calceae	calceīs
accusative	calceam	calceās
ablative	calceā	calceīs
vocative	calcea	calceae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: calza ⇒ calzone
    • → French: calçon, caleçon
  • Old Sicilian: *calza
    • Sicilian: càusi pl
    • → Maltese: qalza ⇒ qalziet
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cjalce ⇒ cjalcìn
  • Istriot: calsa
  • Piedmontese: cauça
  • Venetan: calça
    • → Greek: κάλτσα (káltsa)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: calça ⇒ calceta
  • Franco-Provençal: chôce
  • Old French: chauce (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: cauça ⇒ cauceta
• Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Asturian: calcetu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: calça
    • Galician: calza
    • Portuguese: calça
  • Old Spanish: calça
    • Spanish: calza ⇒ calzón, calceta
    • → North Levantine Arabic: كلسة (kalsa)
  • → Basque: galtza ⇒ galtzak

Etymology 2

Verb

calceā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of calceō