The corpus record — Latin

kalendarium

kalendarium · n

a debt-book, account-book, the interest-book of a money-lender

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Where it lives

De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Kălendārĭum — Lewis & Short

Kălendārĭum (Cal-), ii, n.id.,

I a debt-book, account-book, the interest-book of a money-lender, because monthly interest was reckoned to the Kalends: nemo beneficia in Kalendario scribit, Sen. Ben. 1, 2, 3: versare, id. Ep. 14, 18: quid fenus et Kalendarium et usura, nisi humanae cupiditatis extra naturam quaesita nomina, id. Ben. 7, 10, 3; Orig. 12, 1, 41; 15, 1, 58 al.; also called Kalendarii liber, Sen. Ep. 87, 7. —

II Trop.: graciles aurium cutes Kalendarium expendunt, i. e. a fortune, a whole estate, Tert. Hab. Mul. 1, 9 fin.

In the wild

kalendarium Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.14.18
kalendarium Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum 1.9

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.