calcaris
Dictionary entries
- Entry →calco, calcare, calcavi, calcatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tread/trample upon/under foot, crush; tamp/ram down; spurn; copulate (cock);
sg. futperf. act. ind. 2ndsg. perf. act. subj. 2nd - Entry →calco, calcare, calcavi, calcatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tread/trample upon/under foot, crush; tamp/ram down; spurn; copulate (cock);
sg. pres. pass. ind. 2nd - Entry →calcar, calcaris:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spur (for horse); spur, incitement, stimulus; spur of a cock;
gen. sg. - —
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Numquam hercle hodie exorabis. nam iam calcari quadrupedo agitabo advorsum clivom, postidea ad pistores dabo, ut ibi cruciere..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...timor transferat, ne dum calcare nolumus videamur posse calcari. Multis timendi attulit causas timeri posse. Undique nos reducamus..."
