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Pronunciation
Verb
callis
- second-person singular present subjunctive of callar
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kel-. Cognate with Latin celer.
Pronunciation
Noun
callis m or f (genitive callis); third declension
- path
- rough, stony track
Usage notes
- This noun tends to be masculine in poetry and feminine in prose.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “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