calceate

English

Etymology

From Latin calceātus, participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (“forming verbs”), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”). As a verb under influence from the English suffix -ate (“forming verbs”). Doublet of calcate.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): (adjective) /kælˈsiɪt/, /kælˈsijɪt/, /kælˈsiət/, /kælˈsijət/, (verb) /kælsiˈeɪt/

Adjective

calceate (not comparable)

1. (rare) Synonym of shod: wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) as opposed to the barefoot mendicant orders.

Derived terms

• Fathers Calceate

 

Verb

calceate (third-person singular simple present calceates, present participle calceating, simple past and past participle calceated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of shoe: to put on shoes.

References

• “† calceate, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2023.
• “calceate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Latin

Verb

calceāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of calceō