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calce

calce is a Latin form of calcis, meaning “(calx) heel; lime; finishing line”.

It can also be a form of calx, “heel; lime, chalk; goal (end of the racecourse)”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica fr.7: reapse sepse Quoniam sumus ab ipsa calce eius interpellatione revocati . cui nemo civis neque hostis Quivit pro factis reddere par pretium.

All forms of calcis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.