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Galician
Etymology 1
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Adjective
calcaria f sg
- feminine singular of calcario
Noun
calcaria f (plural calcarias)
- limestone
Etymology 2
Verb
calcaria
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular conditional of calcar
Latin
Etymology
From calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), from calx (“lime”) + -ārius.
Noun
calcāria f (genitive calcāriae); first declension
- lime quarry
- limekiln
- limeworks
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Noun
calcāria
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of calcar
Adjective
calcāria
- inflection of calcārius:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
calcāriā
- ablative feminine singular of calcārius
References
- calcaria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- calcaria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to put spurs to a horse: calcaria subdere equo
- (ambiguous) to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere
- “calcaria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “calcaria”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Portuguese
Verb
calcaria
- first/third-person singular conditional of calcar