The story
- Latin · borrowed fromcalcātus
- English todaycalcate
From Latin calcātus, the past participle of calcāre (“to trample”), parsed via English -ate (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of calque.
Words from the same roots
Latincalcātus all →
calcation
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.