callar

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callí, past participle callat)

1. (intransitive) to be silent, to be quiet

   El meu home calla. ― My husband doesn't say a word.

2. (intransitive) to hush, to stop talking, to become silent

   Si us plau, calleu! ― Please, silence!

3. (transitive) to hush, to make silent

   I llavors el va fer callar. ― And then he shut him up.

4. (transitive or reflexive) to say nothing about, to not mention

   Aquestes coses se les calla. ― She does not mention such things.

Conjugation

Galician

Alternative forms

• coallar, cuallar
• coalhar, calhar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin coagulare (“coagulate”). Cognate with Portuguese coalhar and Spanish cuajar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈʎaɾ/

Verb

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callei, past participle callado)

1. to curdle, solidify
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 183:

     desque entra o verão, por que estonçes se começã a rreter et deslyr as neues et as geadas que o poder do frio tem coalladas

     as soon as summer starts, because it's then that there begin to thaw and thin the snows and frosts that the power of the cold maintains curdled

2. to coagulate

   Synonym: coagular

Conjugation

Derived terms

• callada
• callón

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *callāre, from Latin chalāre, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō). Compare Portuguese calar.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧llar

Verb

callar (first-person singular present callo, first-person singular preterite callé, past participle callado)

1. to calm

   Synonyms: calmar, tranquilizar

2. (reflexive) to be silent, to shut up

   ¿Por qué no te callas?

   Why don’t you shut up?

3. to keep silent
4. (intransitive) to hush, to become silent
5. (transitive) to hush, to make silent
6. to not mention

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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