cálamo

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See also: calamo

Galician

Partes dunha pluma:
1. vexilo
2. raque
3. barbas
4. hiporraque
5. cálamo (calamus)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”).

Noun

cálamo m (plural cálamos)

  1. (ornithology) calamus, quill (of a feather)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cá‧la‧mo

Noun

cálamo m (plural cálamos)

  1. object made from a reed, such as a pen or arrow
  2. sweet flag; calamus (Acorus calamus, a perennial wetland plant with an aromatic medicinal root)
    Synonym: ácoro

Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”). Cf. carámbano, inherited from a diminutive form of the Latin.

Noun

cálamo m (plural cálamos)

  1. a reed pen, used to write with ink in antiquity
  2. (botany) sweet flag or calamus, a plant in the genus Acorus

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