calcaneum

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin calx, calcis (“heel”).

Noun

calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• calcāneus

Etymology

From calx (“heel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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: 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 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.