calcatorium

Latin

From calcāre (“to trample”) +‎ -tōrium (“-ory: forming locations”), from calx (“heel”) + -āre (“forming verbs”).

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kal.kaˈto.ri.um/, [kälkäˈt̪ɔːrium]

calcātōrium n (genitive calcātōriī or calcātōrī); second declension

winepress, particularly a location where grapes are crushed underfoot to produce juice or wine

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

“calcatorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
calcatorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
calcatorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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