calcaneum
English
Noun
calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calcaneum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From calx (“heel”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kalˈkaː.ne.um/, [käɫ̪ˈkäːneʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kalˈka.ne.um/, [kälˈkäːneum]
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | calcāneum | calcānea |
| Genitive | calcāneī | calcāneōrum |
| Dative | calcāneō | calcāneīs |
| Accusative | calcāneum | calcānea |
| Ablative | calcāneō | calcāneīs |
| Vocative | calcāneum | calcānea |
Descendants
- Aromanian: cãlcãnju, cãlcãnjiu
- Asturian: calcañu
- Catalan: calcani (borrowing), calcany (archaic)
- English: calcaneum (borrowing)
- Friulian: calcagn
- Galician: calcañar, calcañeira (dial.), calcañeiro (argot), calcáneo, cancañeira (dial.)
- Italian: calcagno
- Occitan: caucàgn (Gascon dial.)
- Portuguese: calcâneo (borrowing), calcanho (slang/argot), calcanhar
- Romanian: călcâi
- Romansch: chaltgogn, calcogn, chalchagn
- Sardinian: calcanzu, carcàngiu, carcanzu
- Sicilian: carcagnu
- Spanish: calcáneo (borrowing), calcaño (archaic or dial.), calcañar, carcañal
- Venetian: calcagno
References
- “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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