The story
- French · derived fromcalcéiforme
- Latin · derived fromcalceus“calceus, footwear”
- English todaycalceiform
From Latin calceus (“calceus, footwear”) + English -form (“-shaped”) after the model of French calcéiforme.
Words from the same roots
Latincalceus all →
calcedcalceus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.