calcearium

Latin

Alternative forms

• calciārium

Etymology

From calceus (“shoe”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *calceārius (“relating to shoes”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kal.keˈaː.ri.um/, [käɫ̪keˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kal.t͡ʃeˈa.ri.um/, [käl̠ʲt͡ʃeˈäːrium]

Noun

calceārium n (genitive calceāriī or calceārī); second declension

1. (military) money given to soldiers for the expense of maintaining their shoes

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	calceārium	calceāria
Genitive	calceāriī calceārī1	calceāriōrum
Dative	calceāriō	calceāriīs
Accusative	calceārium	calceāria
Ablative	calceāriō	calceāriīs
Vocative	calceārium	calceāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: calzare
• → Basque: galtzari

References

• “calcearium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calcearium 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)