calceolus
Latin
Etymology
From calceus (“calceus, footwear”) + -olus (“-ole: forming diminutives”), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kalˈke.o.lus/, [käɫ̪ˈkeɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kalˈt͡ʃe.o.lus/, [käl̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛːolus]
Noun
calceolus m (genitive calceolī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | calceolus | calceolī |
| genitive | calceolī | calceolōrum |
| dative | calceolō | calceolīs |
| accusative | calceolum | calceolōs |
| ablative | calceolō | calceolīs |
| vocative | calceole | calceolī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Translingual: Calceolaria
- English: calceolaria
- English: calceolate
- >? Romansch: chaltschiel, caltschol
- Sardinian: cazzola, cathola f
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “calceolus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 70
Further reading
- “calceolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calceolus 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)
- calceolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.