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名詞

calcar (plural calcars)

1. A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

関連する語

• calcarious
• calcary

語源 2

From the Latin calcar (“spur”).

名詞

calcar (plural calcars or calcaria)

1. (botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.
   • 1913, David Sharp, Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands, page 23:

     ... a calcar, the apical spine of the inner series must in many of the species be also considered as such, since the appearance of both, and their position as regards the calcaria, are precisely similar. This apical spine of the inner […]

   • 1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy: A Guide to the Study of Insect Anatomy and an Introduction to Systematic Entomology, page 245:

     ... The calcaria are frequently specified in the taxonomy of insects and are [...] a calcar is known as a strigilis. [...] A calcar and sometimes some of the adjacent setae are used for closing the […]

   • 2023 November 21, Danilo Russo, Brock Fenton, A Natural History of Bat Foraging: Evolution, Physiology, Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 19:

     ... calcars. When the tail is long (equal to or longer than the length of the hind legs) and calcars are present [...] calcar is absent in all known specimens […]

派生語

• calcarate

関連する語

• calcariferous
• calcariform
• calcarine

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkaɫ.kar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkal.kar]

名詞

calcar n (genitive calcāris); third declension

1. spur (equestrian, or of a cock)
2. (figuratively) incitement, stimulus

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

派生した語

• → English: calcar
• → Italian: calcare

参照

• “calcar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calcar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calcar”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to put spurs to a horse: calcaribus equum concitare
    
• “calcar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calcar”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough, 1903.