calcearium

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Latin

Alternative forms

calciārium

Etymology

From calceus (“shoe”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *calceārius (“relating to shoes”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kal.keˈaː.ri.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kal.t͡ʃeˈa.ri.um/,

Noun

calceārium n (genitive calceāriī or calceārī); second declension

(military) money given to soldiers for the expense of maintaining their shoes

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	calceārium	calceāria
Genitive	calceāriī calceārī¹	calceāriōrum
Dative	calceāriō	calceāriīs
Accusative	calceārium	calceāria
Ablative	calceāriō	calceāriīs
Vocative	calceārium	calceāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Italian: calzare
→ Basque: galtzari

References

“calcearium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
calcearium 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)

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