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Latin
Etymology
calcitrō + -ōsus
Pronunciation
Adjective
calcitrōsus (feminine calcitrōsa, neuter calcitrōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- kicking, apt to kick, (fig.) refractory
4 CE – c. 70 CE,
Columella,
De Re Rustica 2.2.26:
- Numquam stimulo lacessat juvencum, quod retrectantem calcitrosumque eum reddit.
Dig. 9.1.1
Dig. 21.1.4
- (Medieval Latin) Synonym of callōsus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “calcĭtrōsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Calcitrosus 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)
- calcĭtrōsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 243/2: “calcĭtrōsus, a, um (calcitro 1), rueur: Col. 2, 2, 26.”