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English

Etymology

From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kælks/

Noun

calx (plural calxes or calces)

1. (now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
   • 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University 2004, p. 179:

     The regeneration of mercury from its calx, without addition of any other substance, had been a chief example for anti-phlogiston, but that could, as Kirwan showed, be explained in a way consistent with phlogiston theory.

2. In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalks/, [kä??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalks/, [k?lks]

Etymology 1

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix, “pebble”).

Noun

calx f (genitive calcis); third declension

1. limestone
2. chalk
3. the finish line

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin, with possibilities including:

• An extension of the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kel- (“to bend”).
• Etruscan origin
• From Proto-Indo-European *klHk(?)-(n)-, related to Serbo-Croatian kuk (“thigh, hip”), Bulgarian ????? (k?lka, “hip”), Russian ???? (kolk, “bony stump”), Latvian kulksnis (“hock”), Lithuanian kulksnis (“ankle”), Old Prussian culczi (“hip”)

Noun

calx f (genitive calcis); third declension

1. (anatomy) heel (of the foot)

   Synonyms: t?lus, (Medieval Latin) t?l?

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• (limestone) calx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (heel) calx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calx in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• calx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• calix

Etymology

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek ????? (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.l?ks/, /?ke?.l?ks/

Noun

calyx (plural calyces or calyxes)

1. (botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

   Meronym: sepal

2. (zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.
   1. A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
   2. The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
   3. A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
   4. A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.

Translations

Related terms

• calyx eye

Further reading

• calyx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• calyx (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• calyx (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “calyx”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.lyks/, [?käl?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.liks/, [?k??liks]

Noun

calyx m (genitive calycis); third declension

1. The bud, cup, or calyx of a flower or nut.
2. A plant of two kinds, resembling the arum, perhaps the monk's hood.
3. (by extension) The shell of fruits, pericarp.
4. (by extension) An eggshell.
5. A fitting on a Roman pipe

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• calyculus

Descendants

• ? English: calyx
• ? French: calice

See also

• calix

References

• https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/calyx
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/calyx
• calyx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette