callis

See also: Callis

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.ʎis]

Verb

callis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of callar

Latin

Etymology

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”), and compared with celer (“fast”). De Vaan prefers to link the word to callum (“hard substance, callus”) instead, considering the "rough" connotations of both terms.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.lis/, [ˈkälːʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.lis/, [ˈkälːis]

Noun

callis m or f (genitive callis); third declension

1. path, footpath
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.404–405:

     It nigrum campīs agmen, praedamque per herbās / convectant calle angustō [...].

     [The ants march like] a black column advances on the plain, and they carry their pillage on a narrow path through the grass [...].

2. rough, stony track

Usage notes

• This noun tends to be masculine in poetry and feminine in prose.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	callis	callēs
genitive	callis	callium
dative	callī	callibus
accusative	callem	callēs callīs
ablative	calle	callibus
vocative	callis	callēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: cali, cale
• Asturian: calle, caye, cai
• Basque: kale
• Catalan: call
• Croatia: Kalelarga
• Dalmatian: cale
• Istriot: cal
• Italian: calle
• Papiamentu: kaya
• Romanian: cale
• Spanish: calle
• Venetan: cale, cal

Further reading

• “callis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “callis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• callis 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)
• callis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “callis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “callis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin