calo

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Pronunciation

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

French

Etymology

From Caló caló, self-designated gypsy slang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.lo/
  • (file)

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. (slang) Caló; gypsy

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested since circa 1390. From Latin callum (callus), from Proto-Indo-European *kal (hard).

Pronunciation

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. callus (hardened area of the skin)
    • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 19:
      Et tãtas vezes ficou os jeonllos ẽno dia fazẽdo oraçõ a Deus, que tragia en eles calos
      And so many times he rested on his knees that day praying God, that he brought calluses on them
    • 20th century, a folk song (profanity):
      Unha vella de Taboadelo
      díxolle a outra de Xustáns
      que tiña máis calos na cona
      que o ferreiro ten nas mans
      An old woman from Taboadelo
      Told another from Xustáns
      that she had more calluses in the cunt
      than a blacksmith in his hands
  2. callus (material occurring in bone fractures)

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Cantonese 查佬 as +‎ .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ca‧lo

Noun

calo (first-person possessive caloku, second-person possessive calomu, third-person possessive calonya)

  1. (colloquial) passenger recruiter, ticket scalper, broker.

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.lo/
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: cà‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from calare +‎ -o.

Noun

calo m (plural cali)

  1. (archaic) fall
    Synonym: caduta
  2. (figurative) drop, loss, decrease
    Synonyms: caduta, diminuzione, ribasso, riduzione, perdita
    Antonyms: aumento, incremento

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calare

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kalō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (to call, shout).

Cognate with Latin clāmō, clārus, classis, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Old English hlōwan (to make a loud noise, roar, bellow) (whence English low (to moo)). Another possible cognate is Proto-Slavic *kolkolъ (bell). Not related to call.

Pronunciation

Verb

calō (present infinitive calāre, supine calātum); first conjugation, no perfect stem

  1. to call, announce solemnly, call out
Conjugation
   Conjugation of calō (first conjugation, no perfect stem)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present calō calās calat calāmus calātis calant
imperfect calābam calābās calābat calābāmus calābātis calābant
future calābō calābis calābit calābimus calābitis calābunt
passive present calor calāris,
calāre
calātur calāmur calāminī calantur
imperfect calābar calābāris,
calābāre
calābātur calābāmur calābāminī calābantur
future calābor calāberis,
calābere
calābitur calābimur calābiminī calābuntur
perfect calātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect calātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect calātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present calem calēs calet calēmus calētis calent
imperfect calārem calārēs calāret calārēmus calārētis calārent
passive present caler calēris,
calēre
calētur calēmur calēminī calentur
imperfect calārer calārēris,
calārēre
calārētur calārēmur calārēminī calārentur
perfect calātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect calātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present calā calāte
future calātō calātō calātōte calantō
passive present calāre calāminī
future calātor calātor calantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives calāre calātūrum esse calārī calātum esse calātum īrī
participles calāns calātūrus calātus calandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
calandī calandō calandum calandō calātum calātū

Due to the lack of active perfect system forms, the phrase "X called Y" is done via " est calātus per "

Derived terms
Related terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 84-5

Etymology 2

Unknown. One possibility is a substrate.

Pronunciation

Noun

cālō m (genitive cālōnis); third declension

  1. a military servant
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cālō cālōnēs
Genitive cālōnis cālōnum
Dative cālōnī cālōnibus
Accusative cālōnem cālōnēs
Ablative cālōne cālōnibus
Vocative cālō cālōnēs

References

  • calo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • calo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calo 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)
  • calo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • calo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • calo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 85

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calō (present infinitive calāre, perfect active calāvī, supine calātum); first conjugation

  1. Alternative form of chalō
Conjugation
   Conjugation of calō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present calō calās calat calāmus calātis calant
imperfect calābam calābās calābat calābāmus calābātis calābant
future calābō calābis calābit calābimus calābitis calābunt
perfect calāvī calāvistī calāvit calāvimus calāvistis calāvērunt,
calāvēre
pluperfect calāveram calāverās calāverat calāverāmus calāverātis calāverant
future perfect calāverō calāveris calāverit calāverimus calāveritis calāverint
passive present calor calāris,
calāre
calātur calāmur calāminī calantur
imperfect calābar calābāris,
calābāre
calābātur calābāmur calābāminī calābantur
future calābor calāberis,
calābere
calābitur calābimur calābiminī calābuntur
perfect calātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect calātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect calātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present calem calēs calet calēmus calētis calent
imperfect calārem calārēs calāret calārēmus calārētis calārent
perfect calāverim calāverīs calāverit calāverīmus calāverītis calāverint
pluperfect calāvissem calāvissēs calāvisset calāvissēmus calāvissētis calāvissent
passive present caler calēris,
calēre
calētur calēmur calēminī calentur
imperfect calārer calārēris,
calārēre
calārētur calārēmur calārēminī calārentur
perfect calātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect calātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present calā calāte
future calātō calātō calātōte calantō
passive present calāre calāminī
future calātor calātor calantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives calāre calāvisse calātūrum esse calārī calātum esse calātum īrī
participles calāns calātūrus calātus calandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
calandī calandō calandum calandō calātum calātū

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -alu
  • Hyphenation: ca‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin callum (callus), from Proto-Indo-European *kal (hard).

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. callus (hardened area of the skin)
  2. callus (material occurring in bone fractures)
    Synonym: calo ósseo
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

References

  1. ^ calo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkalo/
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Syllabification: ca‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from calar.

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. the soundable depth of a body of water

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

Further reading