calcaneum

From Latin calx, calcis (“heel”).

calcaneum (plural calcaneums or calcanea)

1. (anatomy) The calcaneus.

• “calcaneum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• calcāneus

From calx (“heel”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalˈkaː.ne.um/, [käɫ̪ˈkäːneʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalˈka.ne.um/, [kälˈkäːneum]

calcāneum n (genitive calcāneī); second declension

1. heel

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• calcō
• calx

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: calcani
• → English: calcaneum
• → Portuguese: calcâneo
• → Spanish: calcáneo

• “calcaneum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calcaneum 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)
• calcaneum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.