calamistrum
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin calamistrum (“a curling-iron”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcalamistrum (plural calamistra)
- (zoology) A comb-like structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used to curl certain fibres in the construction of their webs.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “calamistrum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editApparently from Ancient Greek καλάμιστρος (kalámistros, “stipula”), from κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”), referring to the tubular shape of the heated curling irons. Perhaps influenced by Latin instrumental suffix -trum.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka.laˈmis.trum/, [käɫ̪äˈmɪs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.laˈmis.trum/, [käläˈmist̪rum]
Noun
editcalamistrum n (genitive calamistrī); second declension
- curling iron, curling tongs
- excessively ornamented words
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | calamistrum | calamistra |
Genitive | calamistrī | calamistrōrum |
Dative | calamistrō | calamistrīs |
Accusative | calamistrum | calamistra |
Ablative | calamistrō | calamistrīs |
Vocative | calamistrum | calamistra |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Portuguese: calamistro
References
edit- calamistrum 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)
- “calamistrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “calamistrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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