callis

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Verb

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callis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of callar

Latin

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Etymology

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Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (to drive), and compared with celer (fast). De Vaan prefers to link the word to callum (hard substance, callus) instead, considering the "rough" connotations of both terms.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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callis m or f (genitive callis); third declension

  1. path, footpath
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.404–405:
      It nigrum campīs agmen, praedamque per herbās / convectant calle angustō [...].
      [The ants march like] a black column advances on the plain, and they carry their pillage on a narrow path through the grass [...].
  2. rough, stony track

Usage notes

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  • This noun tends to be masculine in poetry and feminine in prose.

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative callis callēs
Genitive callis callium
Dative callī callibus
Accusative callem callēs
callīs
Ablative calle callibus
Vocative callis callēs

Descendants

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References

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  • callis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • callis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • callis 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)
  • callis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • callis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • callis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “callis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 84