callis

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Pronunciation

Verb

callis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of callar

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

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 .
      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

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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative callis callēs
genitive callis callium
dative callī callibus
accusative callem callēs
callīs
ablative calle callibus
vocative callis callēs

Descendants

References

  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

Further reading

  • “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
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