callum

See also: Callum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kal (“hard”); see also Old Church Slavonic калити (kaliti, “to harden, cool”), Old Irish calath (“hard”), Sanskrit कलिका (kalikā, “bud”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.lum/, [ˈkal.lũ]

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.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative callum calla
genitive callī callōrum
dative callō callīs
accusative callum calla
ablative callō callīs
vocative callum calla

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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, 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)
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