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Latin
Etymology
Substantivization of an adjective based on subtel (“the arch of the foot”) + -āris (forms adjectives).
Noun
subtelāris m (genitive subtelāris); third declension (Late Latin)
- shoe, slipper
Isidore,
Etymologiae :
- Talares calcei socci sunt qui inde nominari videntur quod ea figura sint ut contingant talum sicut subtolares quod sub talo sint quasi subtalares.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “subtalaris”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1000