calcaneum

English

Etymology

From Latin calx, calcis (“heel”).

Noun

calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)

(anatomy) The calcaneus.

References

“calcaneum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Alternative forms

calcāneus

Etymology

From calx (“heel”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈkaː.ne.um/, [käɫ̪ˈkäːneʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈka.ne.um/, [kälˈkäːneum]

Noun

calcāneum n (genitive calcāneī); second declension

heel

Declension

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Related terms

calcō
calx

Descendants

Aromanian: cãlcãnju, cãlcãnjiu
Asturian: calcañu
Catalan: calcani (borrowing), calcany (archaic)
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (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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