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Asturian
Noun
calle f (plural calles)
- Alternative form of cai
Chavacano
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish calle, from Latin callis, callem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaʎe/,
- Rhymes: -aʎe
- Hyphenation: ca‧lle
Noun
calle (plural calles)
- street
Galician
Verb
calle
- inflection of callar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Italian
Etymology
From Latin callem (“path”).
Pronunciation
Noun
calle f (plural calli)
- (archaic) (narrow) path
- Synonyms: sentiero, stradina
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Or sen va per un secreto calle, ¶ tra ’l muro de la terra e li martìri, ¶ lo mio maestro, e io dopo le spalle.- Now onward goes, along a narrow path between the torments and the city wall, my Master, and I follow at his back.
- (archaic) route, way, road
- Synonyms: cammino, tragitto
1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 16–18; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:[…] guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de’ raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.- Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, vested already with that planet's rays which leadeth others right by every road.
- (Venice) alley (especially in Venice)
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
callē
- second-person singular present active imperative of calleō
References
- “calle”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkaʝe/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkaʎe/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkaʃe/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkaʒe/
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish cal, calle, from Latin callem. For the retention/analogical restoration of final /e/ after /ʎ/, compare valle and conversely piel.
Noun
calle f (plural calles)
- street
- Synonyms: calzada, pista
- lane (in a pool or racetrack, but not a highway)
- Synonym: carril
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
calle
- inflection of callar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
Anagrams
Tarantino
Adjective
calle
- warm