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- Latin · derived fromcalceātus
- English todaycalceated
From Latin calceātus + English -ed under influence from English -ate (verb-forming suffix), past participle of calceāre (“to shoe, to provide with shoes”), from calceus (“calceus, shoe”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from calx (“heel”) + -eus (“-y”, adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of calcated.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.