The corpus record — Latin

calcar

calcar · n

a spur

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ex Ponto 2 · 0.96/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. calcar — Lewis & Short

calcar, āris, n.for carcar; cf. Sanscr. kar, wound; and Lat. calx.

I Lit., a spur as worn on the heel: calcaria dicta, quia in calce hominis ligantur, ad stimulandos equos, Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 6 (class. in prose and poetry; esp. freq. trop.): calcari quadrupedem agitare, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 118: incendere equum calcaribus, to spur one's horse, Hirt. B. G. 8, 48; so, concitare, Liv. 2, 6, 8; Curt. 7, 4, 18: stimulare, Val. Max. 3, 2, 9: subdere equo calcaria, Liv. 2, 20, 2; Curt. 3, 13, 8; 7, 2, 4: calcaribus subditis, Liv. 4, 19, 4; 4, 33, 7; Curt. 4, 16, 6: equi fodere calcaribus armos, Verg. A. 6, 881: calcaribus auferre equum, Sil. 10, 280.—

B Trop., spur, stimulus, incitement: calcaribus ictus amoris, *Lucr. 5, 1074: dicebat Isocrates se calcaribus in Ephoro, contra autem in Theopompo frenis uti solere, Cic. de Or. 3, 9, 36: alter frenis eget, alter calcaribus, id. Att. 6, 1, 12; cf. id. Brut. 56, 204; Quint. 2, 8, 11; 10, 1, 74: anticipate atque addite calcar, Varr. ap. Non. p. 70, 13; * Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 217: immensum gloria calcar habet, Ov. P 4, 2, 36.—So also of the driving winds: ventus calcar admovere, Varr. ap. Non. p. 451, 29.—Prov.: addere calcaria sponte currenti, to spur a willing horse, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 1.—

II Transf., the spur on the leg of the cock, Col. 8, 2, 8.

2. calcar — Walde–Hofmann

calcar, -äris n. (eigtl. calcäre sc. ferrum “Ferseneisen’) ,Sporn*, übtr. ,Ansporn* (seit Plaut), calceus, -= m. „Schuh, Halbstiefel* (seit Plaut, rom., ebenso -eolus „kleiner Schuh seit Plt., -eolärius m. „Schuster* Plt., -ämentum n. ,Schuhwerk* seit Cato; dazu kdA1lov* ümóbnpua, xdXroi* ómobjuara. xoila Ev Tolg Immebouon, tarentin, [Rhinton] kaXríov : Lw. aus o. *calc-tios nach v. Blumenthal Gl. 18, 1491), calco, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. calcar, p. 168]

In the wild

calcar Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.94.23
calcar Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.2.36
calcar Ovid, Remedia Amoris 788
calcar Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.732
calcar Seneca, De Ira 3.3.1
calcar Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.68.13

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. calcar (scan p. 168; entry #509).

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