calcivorus
Latin
adj
Definitions
- (New Latin) lime/limestone-eating
Etymology
Affix from Latin calx (heel, limestone, lime, pebble, chalk, game counter, mortar) + Latin vorō (I devour, devour, swallow, swallow up, I eat greedily).
Origin
Latin
vorō
Gloss
I devour, devour, swallow, swallow up, I eat greedily
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- calcite English
- calcium English
- calx English
- *calcestris Latin
- *calciāta Latin
- *calcīna Latin
- *incalciāre Latin
- -vorus Latin
- calcareus Latin
- calcariensis Latin
- calcarius Latin
- calcatrippa Latin
- calceus Latin
- calceāta Latin
- calcium Latin
- calco Latin
- calculus Latin
- caliga Latin
- cals Latin
- calx Latin
- devoro Latin
- folium Latin
- incalciō, incalcio, incalciāre Latin
- vorator Latin
- vorax Latin
- vorō Latin
- Kalk German
- scalciare Italian
- vora Italian
- ка́льций Russian
- caliche Spanish, Castilian
- χάλιξ Ancient Greek
- *gʷerh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- kalk Norwegian Bokmål
- kalsitt Norwegian Bokmål
- kalk Norwegian Nynorsk
- kalsitt Norwegian Nynorsk
- cealc Old English
- kalk Danish
- اَل Arabic
- kalk Icelandic
- coucillón Galician
- calc Old High German
- kalk Old High German
- cailc Old Irish
- *kalk Old Dutch
- kalk Middle Low German