English

Proper noun

Callum

1. A male given name, a variant spelling of Calum.

Latin

Alternative forms

• callus

Noun

callum n ‎(genitive callī); second declension

1. A hard or thick substance.
2. The hardened, thick skin upon animal bodies, hide.
3. The hard skin or flesh of plants.
4. The hard covering of soil.
5. A callus, induration.
6. (figuratively) Hardness, callousness, insensibility, stupidity.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (callus): clāvus
• (hide): corium, cutis, pellis, scortum, tergus

Derived terms

• callōsus

Related terms

• callōsitās

Descendants

• Italian: callo
• Portuguese: calo
• Spanish: callo

References

• callum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• callum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CALLUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “callum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to render insensible to pain: callum obducere dolori (Tusc. 2. 15. 36)