calcaneum

English

Etymology

From Latin calx, calcis (“heel”).

Noun

calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)

(anatomy) The calcaneus.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

calcāneus

Etymology

From calx (“heel”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

calcāneum n (genitive calcāneī); second declension

heel

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	calcāneum	calcānea
Genitive	calcāneī	calcāneōrum
Dative	calcāneō	calcāneīs
Accusative	calcāneum	calcānea
Ablative	calcāneō	calcāneīs
Vocative	calcāneum	calcānea

Related terms

calcō
calx

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
Romansh: chaltgogn, calcogn, chalchagn
Sardinian: calcanzu, carcàngiu, carcanzu
Sicilian: caccagnu, 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, 1883–1887)
calcaneum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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