calceus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin calceus, substantive use of calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kælˈseɪəs/ === Noun === calceus (plural calceuses or calcei) A kind of low leather Roman boot or hightop shoe. 2022, Jan Radicke, Roman Women's Dress..., p. 99: In comparison with the soccus and the solea, the calceus was a more formal footwear. We do not not usually find it in scenes of private life... We never find it with banquets, where the soccus and the solea prevail. It was probably only put on when leaving the house or, in the case of men, when receiving guests in a formal manner. == Latin == === Alternative forms === calcius === Etymology === A substantive use of calx (“heel”) +‎ -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkaɫ.ke.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkal̠ʲ.t͡ʃe.us] === Noun === calceus m (genitive calceī); second declension (historical) calceus, a kind of low Roman boot or leather hightop shoe 1922, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, Cap. 3, §137: (inexact) footwear, shoe, boot ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Sardinian: cartzu, cartu, ⇒ caltzeta, caltzita, cartzita ⇒ Italian: calcetto ⇒ Romanian: încălțăminte, călcâi ⇒ Venetan: calseto Borrowings: → English: calceus, ⇒ calced, calceiform → Italian: calceo → Spanish: cálceo === References === “calceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “calceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "calceus", 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) “calceus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “calceus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “calceus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN