calcatorium
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From calcāre (“to trample”) + -tōrium (“-ory: forming locations”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kal.kaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [käɫ̪käːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kal.kaˈto.ri.um/, [kälkäˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun[edit]
calcātōrium n (genitive calcātōriī or calcātōrī); second declension
- winepress, particularly a location where grapes are crushed underfoot to produce juice or wine
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | calcātōrium | calcātōria |
| Genitive | calcātōriī calcātōrī1 |
calcātōriōrum |
| Dative | calcātōriō | calcātōriīs |
| Accusative | calcātōrium | calcātōria |
| Ablative | calcātōriō | calcātōriīs |
| Vocative | calcātōrium | calcātōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants[edit]
- English: calcatory
References[edit]
- “calcatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calcatorium 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)
- calcatorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.