"calcaneum" meaning in Latin

See calcaneum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [kaɫˈkaː.ne.ũː] [Classical-Latin], [kalˈkaː.ne.um] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From calx (“heel”). Head templates: {{la-noun|calcāneum<2>}} calcāneum n (genitive calcāneī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|calcāneum<2>}} Forms: calcāneum [canonical, neuter], calcāneī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], calcāneum [nominative, singular], calcānea [nominative, plural], calcāneī [genitive, singular], calcāneōrum [genitive, plural], calcāneō [dative, singular], calcāneīs [dative, plural], calcāneum [accusative, singular], calcānea [accusative, plural], calcāneō [ablative, singular], calcāneīs [ablative, plural], calcāneum [singular, vocative], calcānea [plural, vocative], calcāneus [alternative]
  1. heel Tags: declension-2 Related terms: calcō, calx
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.