The corpus record — Latin

calcaneum

calcaneum · n

the heel

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k

What it meant

calcānĕum — Lewis & Short

calcānĕum, i, n. (calcānĕus, i, m.,

Isid. Orig. 11, 1, 14; Ambros. in Psa. 48) [calx] (a rare form for calx),

I the heel, Verg. M. 36: camelorum, Lampr. Elag. 20.

In the wild

calcanea Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 20
calcanea Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 2.7
calcanea Appendix Vergiliana, Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 36

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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