calcea

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kal.tse.a/

Noun

calcea (plural calceas)

  1. sock
  2. stocking

Latin

Etymology 1

From calce- +‎ -a (feminine ending). Attested from 800 CE in the works of Theodulf of Orléans.[1]

Noun

calcea f (genitive calceae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. stocking (? presumably)
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative calcea calceae
genitive calceae calceārum
dative calceae calceīs
accusative calceam calceās
ablative calceā calceīs
vocative calcea calceae
Descendants
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Istriot: calsa
    • Italian: calza, calzone, calzetta
    • Old Sicilian: *calza
    • Venetan: calça
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: cjalce, cjalcìn
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: cauça
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: calça, calceta
    • Franco-Provençal: chôce
    • Occitan: cauça, cauceta
      • Sicilian: causi (f. p.), causetta
    • Old French: chauce (see there for further descendants)
  • Ibero-Romance:

Etymology 2

Verb

calceā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of calceō

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “calceus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 72