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.[1]

Noun

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

  1. stocking (? presumably)
Descendants

Verb

calceā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of calceō

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “calceus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 72
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