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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”) (perhaps via suffixed zero-grade *kl̥H-no-(m)); see also Old Church Slavonic калити (kaliti, “to harden, cool”), Proto-Celtic *kaletos (“hard”), Sanskrit कलिका (kalikā, “bud”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
callum n (genitive callī); second declension
- A hard or thick substance.
- The hardened, thick skin upon animal bodies, hide.
- The hard skin or flesh of plants.
- The hard covering of soil.
- A callus, induration.
- (figuratively) Hardness, callousness, insensibility, stupidity.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- “callum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “callum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- callum 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)
- callum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to render insensible to pain: callum obducere dolori (Tusc. 2. 15. 36)
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “callum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 84