calcaneum

English

Etymology

From Latin calx, calcis (“heel”).

Noun

calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)

1. (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

1. heel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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
• 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.