clavus
noun
clavus is a noun meaning “A callous growth, especially on the foot; a corn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-L-A-V-U-S, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of clavus is clavuses or clavi.
What does clavus mean?
noun
- 1
A callous growth, especially on the foot; a corn.
- 2
obsoleteSynonym of ergot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce clavus?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-clavus.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of clavus
- clavuses plural
- clavi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is clavus?
Clavus appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does clavus come from?
Borrowed from Latin clāvus (“a nail”). Doublet of clove.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).