cal

cal

1. calorie

• ㎉ / kcal

• IPA^(key): /kæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Clippings.

cal (plural cals)

1. (informal) Clipping of calorie.
2. (military, informal) Clipping of caliber.
3. (informal) Clipping of calendar.
   • 2020 April 1, Taylor Lorenz, “Stop Trying to Be Productive”, in The New York Times‎:

     “I set an hour on my cal every day for a home workout. Then I’d be on calls for three hours, then I’d make a homemade breakfast, take a walk at lunchtime, work on something non-screen-related in the evening, cook dinner and go on a run,” she said.

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cal (uncountable)

1. (mining, archaic, UK, dialect, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten[1].

From an abbreviation of calcium hydroxide.

cal (uncountable)

1. calcium hydroxide, slaked lime

• ACL, CLA, LAC, LAc, LCA, Lac, alc, lac

• calu

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”). Compare Romanian cal.

cal m (plural calj or cayi)

1. horse

• cãlãrets
• cãlar/ncãlar
• cãlãriu
• ncalic

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkal/
• Rhymes: -al

cal

1. Contraction of ca el.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cal

1. third-person singular present indicative of caldre

From clipping of English calibrate.

cal

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fine-tune; to calibrate (a hardware, e.g. camera, television, speakers)

• cal機／cal机, caltor

From Latin quālis.

cal

1. as

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cal

1. road, street

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

• IPA^(key): /kal/

cal m (plural cals)

1. callus (hardened part of the skin)

• “cal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal m (plural cales)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

• Caeira
• Caeiro
• Cal
• cal morto
• cal vivo

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cãale, from Latin canalis. Doublet of canal.

• canle

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal m or f (plural cales)

1. ditch
2. furrow
3. mill race
4. chute

• Cal
• Da Cal
• Dacal

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese qual, from Latin quālis (“which”). Cognate with Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.

• cual

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal (plural cales)

1. which (what one)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal f (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of caloría.

• “qual” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cãal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin callis, callem.

cal

1. street, alley

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kaliR. Compare Classical Nahuatl calli (“house”).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /kal/
• (Witzapan) IPA^(key): /ɡal/
• (Cuisnahuat) IPA^(key): /kaɬ/, /kaːl/
• (Teotepeque) IPA^(key): /kaɬ/
• (Jicalapa) IPA^(key): /kaɬʲ/

cal (plural cahcal)

1. an enclosed habitational space, a house or room

   Ne nocompa nemi tic oni toltic cal

   My friend lives in that yellow house

• -chan (“home”)

Borrowed from German Zoll.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sal/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cal

cal m inan

1. inch (unit of measure)

• cal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Portuguese cal, from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cal

cal f (plural cales or cais)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), probably of Gaulish [Term?] origin or from something further east, such as a Scythian and ultimately Proto-Iranian [Term?] origin[1]. The Romanian word likely went through an earlier hypothetical form *căal or *caual[2].

• IPA^(key): /kal/

• Audio

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cal m (plural cai)

1. horse
2. (chess) knight

• călare
• încăleca

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/ [ˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cal

Inherited from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx (via the nominative), from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”).

cal f (uncountable)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

• a cal y canto
• agua de cal
• cal apagada
• cal hidráulica
• cal muerta
• cal viva
• cloruro de cal
• línea de cal
• mortero de cal
• piedra de cal
• una de cal y otra de arena

cal

1. Symbol of caloría

• “cal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

cal (nominative plural cals)

1. occupation
2. office (position)
3. profession

• cäl
• cälan
• cäläb
• cälod
• cälodön
• cälov
• cälovik
• cälön
• hicäläb
• hicälan
• jicäläb
• jicälan
• laidacäl