clavo.
nail (metal spike)
Meaning & usage
nail (metal spike)
clavus (callous growth)
a purple stripe whose width distinguished equites from senators
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin clāvus (“nail; stripe on a tunic; callus”), from Proto-Italic *klāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂wos, derived from the root *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”). Doublet of chiodo, chiavo, and chiovo.
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