calcation
English edit
Etymology edit
From calcate (“to trample”) + -tion (“forming abstract nouns”), from Latin calcatus (“trampled”), the past participle of calcāre (“to trample”) parsed via English -ate (“forming verbs”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Doublet of calque.
Noun edit
calcation (plural calcations)
- (rare) Synonym of trampling, the act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
- (rare) Synonym of kick, the act of kicking someone or something, an instance of kicking.
- 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 12, page 342:
- Even a few supernumerary calcations would have been overlooked.
References edit
- “calcation, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2023.
