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English
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Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of calame, culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4), qalam, and shawm.
Noun
[edit]calamus (usually uncountable, plural calamuses or calami)
- The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 4:12–14:
- A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices
- (ornithology) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
- 1956, Advisory Board on Quartermaster Research and Development, The Utilization of Chicken Feathers as Filling Materials, page 9:
- Thus, the four distinct feather parts that have been compared as to amino acid content to note whether or not the composition is uniform are rachis, barbs, calamus and medulla.
- 1969, RIC Spearman, “The epidermis and feather follicles of the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonica) (aves)”, in Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere:
- In follicles late in feather growth, after rupture of the feather sheath, this canal contained the upper part of the calamus.
- 1969, CH Fry, “Structural and functional adaptation to display in the Standard‐winged nightjar Macrodipteryx longipennis”, in Journal of Zoology:
- Chapin asserted that the calamus is firmly fixed in the wing
- A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
- A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
- (Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).
Translations
[edit]sweet flag — see sweet flag
quill — see quill
fistula — see fistula
Further reading
[edit]calamus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Acorus calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Calamus (Sparidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Calamus (Arecaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- “calamus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “calamus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Doublet of culmus. Compare calamīna.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mus/, [ˈkäɫ̪ämʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mus/, [ˈkäːlämus]
Noun
[edit]calamus m (genitive calamī); second declension
- a reed, cane
- (by extension) an object made from a reed, such as a reed pen, arrow, or fishing rod
- Motto of Keio University:
- Calamus gladio fortior
- The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Calamus gladio fortior
- Motto of Keio University:
- (of plants) a stalk, straw, blade
- the hollow arm of a candelabrum
- a whistle or musical pipe; sometimes specifically a blown pipe with tone holes
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | calamus | calamī |
Genitive | calamī | calamōrum |
Dative | calamō | calamīs |
Accusative | calamum | calamōs |
Ablative | calamō | calamīs |
Vocative | calame | calamī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “calamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “calamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- calamus 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)
- calamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “calamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “calamus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi, digital version in the Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, version 01/21, accessed 12 May 2022.[1]
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