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calceus

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Searchable Lemmata: calceus (L), calc (OE), calk (MdE).
Alternate Forms: calcea, calceum, calcei.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Garment; footwear; shoe(s) or boot(s).(circa 900 - ante 1215)
1. Calceos reges utebantur et Caesares. Forma eorum ***. Patricios calceos Romulus repperit quattuor corrigiarum, adsutaque luna: hos soli patricii utebantur. Luna autem in eis non sideris formam, sed notam centenarii numeri significabat, quod initio patricii senatores centum fuerint. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,34,4)]
2. calceos, gescy, ... calsus, meon Gloss. [DMLBS WW (calceus) post 900]
3. Ac gesceode mid calcum & þæt hi mid twam tunecum gescrydde næron.A translation of Mark 6.9, sandalia. [DOE Mk (WSCp) (0198 (6.9))]
4. eant fratres ad exuendos diurnales calceos induantque nocturnales Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS RegulC (25) circa 970]
5. viso quovis pede nudo ... , aptissimum ei statim induebat calceum Other. [DMLBS MAP NC (IV 12) ante 1210]
6. legavit ... comiti Winton' loricam suam et calceas ferreas Legal, Wills. [DMLBS FormA (423) ante 1215]
c.f.: calceamentum, chausses, chaussure, caelis, sandal
L, OE.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, from Classical Latin, likely borrowed into OE pre-650. Modern English calk (calke, cauk, caulk) is given in OED from the sixteenth century as a term for part of a horseshoe, but it notes that 'the history is wanting' and is likely a re-borrowing into English.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
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