callum

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See also: Callum

Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. A hard or thick substance.
  2. The hardened, thick skin upon animal bodies, hide.
  3. The hard skin or flesh of plants.
  4. The hard covering of soil.
  5. A callus, induration.
  6. (figuratively) Hardness, callousness, insensibility, stupidity.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative callum calla
genitive callī callōrum
dative callō callīs
accusative callum calla
ablative callō callīs
vocative callum calla

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Descendants

  • Catalan: call, cal·lus
  • French: cal
  • Galician: calo
  • Italian: callo
  • Portuguese: calo
  • Sicilian: caḍḍu
  • Spanish: callo
  • Venetan: calo

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)
  1. ^ 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
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