calceo Latin · revision 9921

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la calceus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkaɫ.ke.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkal̠ʲ.t͡ʃe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''calceō''' (present infinitive calceāre, perfect active calceāvī, supine calceātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''calciō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|calceus|-ō|t1=shoe]], and the OLD also compares [[calx]] “heel”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations include Plautus, in a jocular use of other parts of the body.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to fit or supply with shoes, put shoes on, shoe, as in Cicero and Pliny; to shoe animals, as of mules in Suetonius; and jokingly of other parts of the body, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to put shoes on.^(Stelten 1995) It survives as Italian ''calzare'', French ''chausser'', Spanish ''calzar'', Portuguese and Catalan ''calçar'' and Romanian ''încălța''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it jokingly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny uses it of shoes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of shoeing mules.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To put [[m|en|shoe|alt=shoes]] on, supply with shoes.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To shoe (animals).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[calceāmen]]

+ * [[calceāmentum]]

+ * [[calceātor]]

+ * [[calceātus]]

+ * [[discalciātus]]

+ * [[disculciō]]

+ * [[discalceō]]

+ * [[excalceō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[calcō]]

+ * [[calceus]]

+ * [[calx]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}