cal

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cal

  1. calorie

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English

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Etymology 1

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Clippings.

Noun

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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[1]:
      “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.
  4. Clipping of calibration.
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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cal (uncountable)

  1. (mining, archaic, UK, dialect, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten.[1]
References
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  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

Etymology 3

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From an abbreviation of calcium hydroxide.

Noun

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cal (uncountable)

  1. calcium hydroxide, slaked lime

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Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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cal m (plural calj or cai)

  1. horse
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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Contraction

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cal

  1. Contraction of ca el.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cal

  1. third-person singular present indicative of caldre

Chinese

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Etymology

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From clipping of English calibrate.

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cal

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

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Dalmatian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin quālis.

Conjunction

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cal

  1. as

Etymology 2

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From Latin callis.

Noun

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cal

  1. road, street

References

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

French

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Noun

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cal m (plural cals)

  1. callus (hardened part of the skin)

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Galician

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Galician Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia gl

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Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cal, from Vulgar Latin *calem, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, pebble).

Noun

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cal m (plural cales)

  1. lime (calcium oxide)
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Etymology 2

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From Old Galician-Portuguese caal, from Latin canalis. Doublet of canal.

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Noun

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cal m or f (plural cales)

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

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

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Pronoun

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cal (plural cales)

  1. which (what one)

Etymology 4

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Noun

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cal f (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of caloría.

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Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin callis, callem.

Noun

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cal

  1. street, alley

Megleno-Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin caballus (horse),[1] from Latin caballus (pack horse), probably of Gaulish [Term?] origin.

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cal m

  1. horse

References

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  • Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Old English

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Etymology

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Variant of cawel.

Noun

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cāl m

  1. cabbage, kale, colewort

Descendants

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  • Middle English: col

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: cal

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, pebble).

Noun

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cal f (plural cals)

  1. lime (calcium oxide)
    • 13th century, Afonso Lopes de Baião, En arouca hũa casa faria; republished as chapter 1471, in Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional[3], c. 1526:
      En arouca hũa casa faria
      Atantei grã sabor dea fazer
      Que ia mays custa nõ recearia
      Nen ar daria rẽ por meu auer
      Ca ey pedreyꝛos e pedra e cal
      E desta casa nõ mi mĩgua al
      Senõ madeyra noua q̃ queria
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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cal

  1. Alternative form of qual
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References

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  • Manuel Ferreiro (20142024) “cal”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN

Pipil

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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
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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sal/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: cal

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from German Zoll.

Noun

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cal m inan

  1. inch (English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cal

  1. second-person singular imperative of calić

Further reading

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

Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cal, from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, pebble).

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

Noun

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cal f or (nonstandard) m (plural cales or cais)

  1. lime (calcium oxide)

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Although common, usage of "cal" as a masculine gender noun is proscribed.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited 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] Compare Aromanian cal.

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cal m (plural cai)

  1. horse
  2. (chess) knight

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Chess pieces in Romanian · piese de șah (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
rege regină, damă tură, turn nebun cal pion

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Spanish

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Etymology 1

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

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cal f (uncountable)

  1. lime (calcium oxide)
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Etymology 2

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Symbol

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cal

  1. Symbol of caloría

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Noun

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cal (nominative plural cals)

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

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