calamellus

Latin

Etymology

From calamus (“reed”) +‎ -ellus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ka.laˈmel.lus/, [käɫ̪äˈmɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.laˈmel.lus/, [käläˈmɛlːus]

Noun

calamellus m (genitive calamellī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) A little reed or pen.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	calamellus	calamellī
Genitive	calamellī	calamellōrum
Dative	calamellō	calamellīs
Accusative	calamellum	calamellōs
Ablative	calamellō	calamellīs
Vocative	calamelle	calamellī

Related terms

• calamārius
• calamus

Descendants

• Catalan: caramell, caramella
• Galician: carambelo (“icicle”), caramelo
• Italian: caramello, caramella
• Old French: chalemel
  • French: chalumeau (“blowtorch”)
    • → English: chalumeau
    • → North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)
    • → Turkish: şalümo
  • → English: shawm
• Old Galician-Portuguese: caramelo
  • Portuguese: caramelo
    • → Spanish: caramelo (“caramel, candy”)
      • → Catalan: caramel
      • → French: caramel (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: caramel
• Sicilian: carameḍḍu, carameḍḍa
• Spanish: caramillo (“shawm”)

References

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