calcar

See also: calçar

English

Etymology 1

From the Italian calcara (lime-kiln).

Noun

calcar (plural calcars)

  1. A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
  • calcarious
  • calcary

Etymology 2

From the Latin calcar (spur).

Noun

calcar (plural calcars)

  1. (botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.
Derived terms

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

Verb

calcar (first-person singular indicative present calco, past participle calcáu)

  1. to press, push
  2. to hit, strike

Conjugation


Galician

Etymology

From Latin calcāre (to press), present active infinitive of calcō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kalˈkaɾ/

Verb

calcar (first-person singular present calco, first-person singular preterite calquei, past participle calcado)

  1. to press
  2. to trample

Conjugation

References


Latin

Etymology

Possibly from an extension of the Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (heel). Cognate of calx, calcō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.kar/, [ˈkaɫ.kar]

Noun

calcar n (genitive calcāris); third declension

  1. spur (equestrian, or of a cock)
  2. (figuratively) incitement, stimulus

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative calcar calcāria
genitive calcāris calcārium
dative calcārī calcāribus
accusative calcar calcāria
ablative calcārī calcāribus
vocative calcar calcāria

Descendants

References

  • calcar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • calcar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calcar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to put spurs to a horse: calcaribus equum concitare
  • calcar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calcar in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough, 1903.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kaɫ.ˈkaɾ/
  • Hyphenation: cal‧car

Verb

calcar (first-person singular present indicative calco, past participle calcado)

  1. to trample
  2. to press (grapes etc)
  3. to crush
  4. to humiliate

Usage notes

Conjugation


Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kalˈkaɾ/

Etymology 1

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

Verb

calcar (first-person singular present calco, first-person singular preterite calqué, past participle calcado)

  1. to trace, copy (copy by means of carbon paper or tracing paper)
  2. to trample
Conjugation
  • c becomes qu before e.

Etymology 2

Noun

calcar m (plural calcares)

  1. (anatomy, botany) calcar (a spur-like projection)
Derived terms

Further reading

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