calcatorium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaɫ.kaːˈtoː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kal.kaˈtɔː.ri.um]

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

• Italian: calcatoio
• → 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.