calcem
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. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →calx, calcis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
heel; spur; pad (dog); forefeet; kick (Roman toe was unprotected); butt (beam);; limestone, lime; chalk, goal, goal-line (chalk mark), end of life; game piece;
acc. sg. - Entry →calcis, calcis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
lead vial/bottle/jar;
acc. sg.
Examples
- T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...abduxerit. MIL. Quin prius disperibit faxo, quam unam calcem civerit. ita paratumst. SYNC. Ita di faxint, ne apud..." - D
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...comedit? nil mihi respondes? aut dic aut accipe calcem. ede ubi consistas: in qua te quaero proseucha?" dicere..." - L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...revocati. 'Hanc quam nunc in circo 'cretam' vocamus 'calcem' antiqui dicebant. Deinde Ennianos colligit versus et in primis..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quod omnes optant et quod omnes timent calcem, ad grammaticorum elementa descenditis? Quid dicitis? sic itur ad astra..." - L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...sublimi semper habeam, quantum refert mea quid calcem? IX. 1. 'At non est haec terra frugiferarum aut laetarum..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...sceptra uiolentus geram nec qui superbo miserias calcem pede, testatus equidem uideor haud clare parum generum exulem legendo..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...alias nenias, et libentissime pingit. Ceterum iam Graeculis calcem impingit et Latinas coepit non male appetere, etiam..."
