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cal

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cal

  1. calorie
  2. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Carolinian.

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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]
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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.

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cal (uncountable)

  1. calcium hydroxide, slaked lime

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Same as çal with the usual c:ç alteration in the first letter ( also cek:çek, cep:çep, cipë:çipë, etc.). Northern Gheg word, also used as first and last name, Cal +‎ -i. Lambertz classifies Cali as an Illyrian name,[1] but Çabej considers it unconvincing.[2]

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cal m (plural calë, definite cali, definite plural calët)

  1. lame person, one who limps
    Synonyms: çal, çalaman

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Declension of cal
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative cal cali calë calët
accusative calin
dative cali calit calëve calëve
ablative calësh

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cal (feminine cale)

  1. limper, lame

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  1. ^ Lambertz, Maximilian (1952), Zeitschrift für Indogermanische Forschungen, 60, page 307
  2. ^ Çabej, E. (1987), “cal”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 7

Aromanian

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Etymology

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

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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.

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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.

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    cal

    1. as

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    From Latin callis.

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    cal

    1. road, street

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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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    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”).

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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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    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 cal / qual, from Latin quālis (“which”). Cognate with Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.

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    cal (plural cales)

    1. which (what one)

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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.

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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

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      • Atasanov, Petar (1990), Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
      1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/cal

      Middle English

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      Noun

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      cal (Northern)

      1. alternative form of col

      Old English

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      Etymology

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      Variant of cawel.

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      cāl m

      1. cabbage, kale, colewort

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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”).

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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[2], 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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      • Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “cal”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

      Pipil

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      Etymology

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      From Proto-Nahuan *kal-lɨ, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kaLi-ta. Compare Classical Nahuatl calli (“house”).

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      cal (plural cahcal)

      1. an enclosed habitational space, a house or room. alternative form of kal
        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:
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      Pronunciation

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

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      German Zollbor.
      Polish cal

        Borrowed from German Zoll.

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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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        Declension of cal
        singular plural
        nominative cal cale
        genitive cala cali
        dative calowi calom
        accusative cal cale
        instrumental calem calami
        locative calu calach
        vocative calu cale

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        See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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        cal

        1. second-person singular imperative of calić

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        • “cal”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
        • “cal”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)

        Portuguese

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        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

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        cal f or (nonstandard) m (usually uncountable, plural cales or cais)

        1. lime (calcium oxide)

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

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        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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          singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative-accusative cal calul cai caii
          genitive-dative cal calului cai cailor
          vocative calule cailor
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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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          1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/cai
          2. ^ https://www.academia.edu/44349879/Sextil_Pu%C8%99cariu_Limba_rom%C3%A2n%C4%83_Vol_II_Rostirea_1959_

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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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          Symbol

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          cal

          1. Symbol of caloría

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          Volapük

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          Noun

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          cal (genitive cala, plural cals)

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

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          Declension of cal
          Singular Plural
          Nominative cal cals
          Genitive cala calas
          Dative cale cales
          Accusative cali calis
          Predicative1 calu calus
          Vocative o cal o cals
          1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

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          Welsh

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          Etymology

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          From Proto-Brythonic *kalɣ, from Proto-Celtic *kalgā. Cognate with Cornish kal, kalgh; Breton kalc'h.

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          cal f

          1. alternative form of cala (“penis”)

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          Mutated forms of cal
          radical soft nasal aspirate
          cal gal nghal chal

          Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
          All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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