calamus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱélh₂m̥ (“reed, straw”). Doublet of culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), qalam, and shawm. === Noun === calamus (usually uncountable, plural calamuses or calami) Sweet flag (Acorus calamus). (ornithology) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather. A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies. A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms. (botany) A fistular stem without an articulation. (Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”). ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === calamus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Acorus calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Calamus (Sparidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Calamus (Arecaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies “calamus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “calamus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of culmus. Compare calamīna. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.ɫa.mʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.la.mus] === Noun === calamus m (genitive calamī); second declension a reed, cane (by extension) an object made from a reed, such as a reed pen, arrow, or fishing rod Motto of Keio University: Calamus gladio fortior The pen is mightier than the sword. (of plants) a stalk, straw, blade the hollow arm of a candelabrum a whistle or musical pipe; sometimes specifically a blown pipe with tone holes ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== calamārius calamister calamellus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “calamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “calamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "calamus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “calamus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “calamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “calamus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi, digital version in the Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, version 01/21, accessed 12 May 2022.[1]