calcatorium

Latin

Etymology

From calcāre (“to trample”) +‎ -tōrium (“-ory: forming locations”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kal.kaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [käɫ̪käːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kal.kaˈto.ri.um/, [kälkäˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

calcātōrium n (genitive calcātōriī or calcātōrī); second declension

1. winepress, particularly a location where grapes are crushed underfoot to produce juice or wine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	calcātōrium	calcātōria
genitive	calcātōriī calcātōrī1	calcātōriōrum
dative	calcātōriō	calcātōriīs
accusative	calcātōrium	calcātōria
ablative	calcātōriō	calcātōriīs
vocative	calcātōrium	calcātōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• English: calcatory

References

• “calcatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calcatorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• calcatorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.