LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinesecond declension

calceus

calceus m (genitive calceī)
Classical[ˈkaɫ.ke.ʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈkal̠ʲ.t͡ʃe.us]
Mille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. historicalmasculinecalceus, a kind of low Roman boot or leather hightop shoe
    1922, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, Cap. 3, §137...indeed your toga and calceus and hair are as worthy of reproach when done with excessive care as when done with too little...
  2. masculinefootwear, shoe, boot

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

quod pedem tegit; ex pelle factum.
calceus -ī m — in Mille Verba, ch. Vestis et Ōrnāmenta

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativecalceuscalceī
genitivecalceīcalceōrum
dativecalceōcalceīs
accusativecalceumcalceōs
ablativecalceōcalceīs
vocativecalceecalceī

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

vestimenta (et calceos) mutare
to change one's clothes (and shoes).

calcĕus (also calcĭus; cf. Burm. and Oud. Suet. Aug. 73, and Calig. 52), i, m. calx,
I. a shoe, a half-boot (covering the whole foot, while soleae, sandals, covered only the lower part, Gell. 13, 22, 5; v. solea, and cf. Liddell and Scott s. v. ὑπόδημα, and Dict. of Antiq.; very freq. and class.): calcei muliebres sint an viriles, Varr. L. L. 9, § 40 Müll.; Titin. ap. Fest. s. v. mulleos, p. 142 ib. (Com. Rel. p. 128 Rib.): calcei habiles et apti ad pedem, Cic. de Or. 1, 54, 231: calcei et toga, id. Phil. 2, 30, 76: in calceo pulvis, id. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 11, 3, 137; cf. id. 11, 3, 143; 6, 3, 74: laxus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 32. laxatus, Suet. Oth. 6: sinister, dexter, id. Aug. 92: laevus, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 24: pede major subvertet, minor uret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 42.—When the Romans reclined at table they laid aside their shoes; hence, calceos poscere (like soleas poscere, v. solea), i. e. to rise from table, Plin. Ep. 9, 17, 3: calceos et vestimenta mutavit, changed, Cic. Mil. 10, 28; but also, because senators wore a peculiar kind of half - boot (cf. Becker, Gallus, III. p. 132, 2d ed.): calceos mutare, i e. to become senator, Cic. Phil. 13, 13, 28.

Origins

A substantive use of calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”).

Elsewhere
  • Sardiniancartzu
  • Sardiniancartu
  • Sardiniancaltzeta
  • Sardiniancaltzita
  • Sardiniancartzita
  • Italiancalcetto
  • Romanianîncălțăminte
  • Romaniancălcâi
  • Venetancalseto
Borrowings
  • Englishcalceus
  • Englishcalced
  • Englishcalceiform
  • Italiancalceo
  • Spanishcálceo

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesCalceusCalceus (ὑπόδημα), a boot, shoe, or other covering for the feet. 1. Greek. The Greeks generally wore some sort of covering for the feet, though it was…

Quick answers

What does calceus mean in Latin?
calceus, a noun, means “calceus, a kind of low Roman boot or leather hightop shoe; footwear, shoe, boot”.
What is the genitive of calceus?
The genitive singular is calceī. calceus is masculine, second declension.
How do you pronounce calceus?
In classical Latin, [ˈkaɫ.ke.ʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈkal̠ʲ.t͡ʃe.us].